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- Title
Status Differences in Schools.
- Authors
Anderson, Barry D.; Baker, Holden
- Abstract
The article examines the nature of status differences between students and teachers in schools. Teachers have a sense of group position towards students, just as students have a sense of group position towards teachers. The sense of group position existing in one group towards another group arises out of a collective process in which the members of one define their position towards members of a second. The teachers have a feeling of superiority over students and they reinforce this superiority of position by noting that certain groups of students (usually classes) have debasing traits such as stupidity, arrogance or laziness. The teachers have a feeling that students are somehow different and alien and it is revealed by the frequency with which such terms as "the class," "the students," "the children," or "they" are used to identify pupils. The feeling of proprietary claim is illustrated by teachers' beliefs that they are entitled to exclusive or prior rights in certain areas of school life, from the selection of parking spaces or use of lounge facilities to the determination of the curriculum.
- Subjects
OCCUPATIONAL prestige; TEACHERS; STUDENTS; STUPIDITY; LAZINESS; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL alienation; PRIVILEGE (Social sciences); CURRICULUM
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1972, Vol 73, Issue 4, p567
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146817207300403