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Being a Teacher: Professional Challenges and Choices, Section Four, The teacher’s authority: sustaining an effective learning environment. The issue of an orderly learning environment (involving rules, discipline and punishment) is explored in relation to broader issues of individual rights and freedom in a democracy. There are three main questions that propel this section: How are teachers to maintain, or regain, their authority "What is the teacher’s role in a democratic learning environment" How can teachers exercise effective authority in practice – how can they establish and maintain order that is not based on fear?

Creators: 
Adendorff, Mike
Mason, Mark
Mondiba, Maropeng
Faragher, Lynette
Kunene, Zandile
Gultig, John
Year: 
2010
License Condition: Creative Commons: Attribution 2.5  
Type: 
Courseware
Section: 
OER courseware
Publisher/Source: 
South African Institute for Distance Education
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