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- Title
Education, Power, and the Authority of Knowledge.
- Authors
Neiman, Alven Michael
- Abstract
The article presents a discussion on teaching profession. Philosophical analyses of the activity of teaching commonly assume that at least two sorts of authority, often designated as social-political and epistemic, respectively, are necessary in any situation in which education takes place. Teachers, it is said, must be in charge; they must be able to maintain discipline in the classroom. They must be in authority. Moreover, according to such analyses teachers must also be authorities with regard to the subjects they are teaching, as well as with regard to knowledge concerning the way students learn and grow. In other words, each teacher must, according to this kind of view, also be an authority in the subject matter to be taught and, to some extent, in pedagogical knowledge. The teacher in authority is justified, at least in part, by the fact that he or she is an epistemic authority in some field of human knowledge worth transmitting in education. Social-political authority is, in this account, justified by reference to epistemic authority.
- Subjects
TEACHING; TEACHERS; EDUCATION; STUDENTS; EPISTEMICS; AUTHORITY
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1986, Vol 88, Issue 1, p64
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818608800105