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The "authority" of teachers in the
network society.
From connection to position
António Batista
Fevereiro 2013
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The modern teacher in the postmodern
world
• The school as an institution and teaching
practice are organized as the society
vertically stratified
In the modern world the school has a
positive project for the lives of students
and families; ensure a better future
through social ascension
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School as "social elevator"
• The social ascent is vertical by the
progressive acquisition of the new status.
• Modern society is vertically stratified
and social mobility is guaranteed by
access to new social stratum.
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Schooling as a central symbol of social
status "
• This status is acquired by gradual
approximation (rise) to the status of the
teacher who is socially defined by the
prestige of ensuring social mobility
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Schooling as a central symbol of social
status "
• The educational background (schooling)
is a continuous path of ascension and
organized social
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What sociologists said;
Talcott Parsons,
Defines social stratification as “«the
differential ranking of the human individuais
who compose a given social system and their
treatment as superior and inferior relative to
one another in centain socially important
respects».
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T. H. MARSHALL,
Social status is defined, in effect, as the position of a
individual taken as a whole (and not just in some of
their social coordinates, eg his profession)
considered equally in society as a whole and 'under
the aspect in which it appears all structured along a
dimension superiority-inferiority.
More succinctly, the social status of an individual is
the point where it resides on a scale of socially
hierarchical positions on the global society.
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PIERRE BOURDIEU
The features revealed by each of the
constituent parts "of a stratified society
historically defined depend not only on your
situation 'intrinsic' (material conditions of
existence and / or professional practices
prevalent), but also (…) of the position in
relation to other "constituent parts" of
society to which he belongs.
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The teacher's authority guaranteed by the
position it occupies in the social hierarchy
The hierarchical position of the teacher is to
mediate vertically the access to schooling (which
guarantees the social value).
The social mediation exercised by the teacher is
based on the identification of the community,
families and students with the teacher's position as
a benchmark social .
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The teacher's authority guaranteed by the
position it occupies in the social hierarchy
The hierarchical position of the teacher is to
mediate vertically the access to schooling (which
guarantees the social value).
The social mediation exercised by the teacher is
based on the identification of the community,
families and students with the teacher's position as
a benchmark social .
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Behavior and motivation in the classroom as
acceptance of authority (status) teacher
The students' behavior and motivation must take
into account the acceptance of the value of learning
guaranteed by the teacher
The core competency of the teacher is to
strengthen the social position and translate that
holds through the manifestation of its status
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Functional coherence of the school with the
socio economic model
• Consistency with the economic model
based on the rational organization of
industrial production
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Functional coherence of the school with the
socio economic model
• Discipline as a core value of the
organization of industrial production
• Manufacturing integrates the vertical
model of organizing society
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This world is disappearing fast
-In economics, culture, art: Passage from
the production paradigm to the paradigm
of consumption;
- Discovery continuous rather than life
path
- Satisfaction rather than discipline and
deprivation
- Affinity instead of objectives
- Absence of future and present overvalued
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Arise other sociological looks… Castells
-"(...) Cultures consists in communication
processes and, once being based
communication signals, there is no
separation between" reality "and symbolic
representation. (...)
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• (...) The battle of the power is in our minds
as we think. It determines what we do. And
minds are networks: neural networks,
which form their worldviews, their
conceptions in relation to other people,
other minds, other networks of neurons and
networks of our natural and social
environment.
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• Society as horizontal stratification by
consumption
• The consumption technology determines
the social stratification
The horizontal stratification is regulated by
the technological nature of consumption;
- hyper social stratification - and spraying
horizontal fragmentation - layering rhythm
determined by the laws of technological
innovation
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• Postmodernity
• The world of motivation and discipline of
teachers authority is over ...
(It has no value in this new social reality.)
• Schooling is not a value in itself;
has only an instrumental value and
circumstantial and individual experience
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• The connection as social identity
• Social identity resulting of membership;
discovery of interests and creating links
between common interests and shared
experiences
• The connections are transitory and expansive
The social existence is related to membership
of multiple networks
• More networks
• More connections
• More links
• Is more reality
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• The teacher as activator of connections
The motivation of students is generated by the
possibility of creating links, connections and
affiliations
The authority of the teacher were a basis for
orientation breakthrough in "real time"
The class enters students in the discovery of
reality and the possibility of participation in the
discovery process
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• Adaptive skills of teachers
•
Create prestige by the ability of networking
•
Set domain authority by the discovery - in
facts and reality advanced immersion
•
Ability to generate virtual laboratories
where they bind to the curricular learning
experience of direct involvement in the
discovery networks
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