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Students And Teachers Perceptions Of Conflict And Power

February 18, 2019August 22, 2017 by admin

Abstract:

Social and economic changes have altered the traditional view of the teacher as the primary power holder in the classrooms making way for a reciprocal power relationship with students in which students and teachers share control of the learning environment. This study examined four urban high school teachers' and their students' perceptions of power. Data were collected through class observations and interviews and were analyzed via constant comparison. Teachers and students attempted to resolve the perceived conflict of interest over preferred class focus by using the power resources available to them. Students reported using non participation, personality power, disruptions, and teacher rewards to influence the class. Teachers felt their power had eroded, yet they were pressured by administrators in their schools to maintain order. They used strategies of strategic withdrawal and student rewards to pursue their values. The mutual influence on one another resulted in a negotiated curriculum of order, rather than education....

Student Stalking Of Faculty: Impact And Prevalence

February 10, 2019August 22, 2017 by admin

I. Introduction.

In October of 2002, three nursing professors at the University of Arizona were killed by a despondent student who claimed, in a suicide letter, he murdered the professors for giving him failing grades (Lenckus, 2002). In the year prior to this attack, these nursing professors were repeatedly harassed and stalked by this student J.Haase, personal communication, June 20, 2007 . Fortunately, not all such incidents result in murder, as exemplified by the charges filed against a student at the University of Maryland at College Park for threatening a professor with a handgun in an attempt to manipulate the professor into providing him an A Schneider and Basinger, 1998. More recently, a former graduate student at Loyola University attempted to burn his professor’s house down in response to having received a failing grade (Collins, 2006). In the year prior to setting the fires, the student had made repeated...