Thy Rod and Thy Staff, They Discomfort Me

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Heine
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Style ◽  
Religious Symbol ◽  
Institutional Authority ◽  
Spiritual Authenticity

This chapter examines the role of the staff as perhaps the primary religious symbol representing the profound aptitude of the spiritual authenticity as well as institutional authority of Zen masters. By virtue of evoking and embodying an adept’s greatest levels of accomplishment, the staff serves as an especially expedient means for implementing his particular method of instructing disciples and, thereby, also becomes an effective method of transmitting the teaching style and legacy of his lineage. Through examining the history and symbolism of more than half a dozen varieties of canes, rods, sceptres, sticks, and whisks, the chapter explores the material and rhetorical elements of Zen staffs.

Gary Becker as Teacher

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 71-73
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Course Design ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Household Production ◽  
Gary Becker

This paper looks at the work of Gary S. Becker, American economist, professor of sociology, friend, and colleague of Kevin M. Murphy. Murphy discusses the traditional approach of Becker's teaching and ideas as they were expressed through his wealth of content and style in course design; his discussions on the role of preferences, technology, and constraints as they influence household production; and his emphasis on the importance of markets and desire for more. Murphy recognizes Becker's teaching style as groundbreaking, unapologetic, and pure economics.

Can Student Ratings of Teaching be Predicted by Teaching Styles?

2010 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 501-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo-Hai Chen ◽  
David Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Style ◽  
Teaching Styles ◽  
Student Ratings ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Evaluation Scores ◽  
Student Ratings Of Teaching ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between teaching styles and student ratings of teaching was examined at a Chinese university. 388 teachers (170 men, 218 women) were invited to fill out the 49-item Teaching Styles Inventory (Grigorenko & Sternberg, 1993). The inventory measures seven teaching styles: legislative, judicial, liberal, global, executive, conservative, and local. Scores from students' evaluations of teaching of courses for one semester were collected. Students' evaluation scores were significantly and negatively related to executive and conservative teaching styles of their teachers, while no significant correlation was found between student ratings and any of the other five teaching styles. Only conservative teaching style contributed significantly to the prediction of student ratings. Sex and age were found to have moderating effects on the relationship between teaching style and student ratings. The role of teaching styles in student ratings was discussed.

scholarly journals The Role of Motivation in Mediating Competence and Teaching Style Against Accounting Understanding

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 2110-2115
Author(s):  
Sungguh Ponten Pranata ◽  
Ahmad Rivai ◽  
Ballian
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Measurement Scale ◽  
School Year ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Quota Sampling

Understanding of accounting has an important meaning both for students and for universities. The purpose of this research is to determine the direct and indirect effect of competency variables and teaching style on accounting understanding through motivation. This type of research is classified as a cause-and-effect research where this research was conducted at STIE Mahkota Tricom Unggul. As for the target population and sample in this study, they are active in the 2019-2020 school year, amounting to 112 people. Where the sampling technique is quota sampling. Where the sample in this study amounted to 112 respondents. Furthermore, the data collection technique used a questionnaire which was distributed to all samples. The questionnaire measurement scale uses the Likert scale. The results showed that competency had a positive and significant effect on motivation. Teaching style has a positive and significant effect on motivation. Competence has a positive and significant effect on accounting understanding. Teaching style has no effect on students' accounting understanding at STIE Mahkota Tricom Unggul. Motivation has a positive and significant effect on student accounting understanding at STIE Mahkota Tricom Unggul. Motivation has no role in mediating competence in accounting understanding. However, motivation has a role in mediating the teaching style of accounting understanding.

scholarly journals Transformational Teaching in Physical Education and Students’ Leisure-Time Physical Activity: The Mediating Role of Learning Climate, Passion and Self-Determined Motivation

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (13) ◽  
pp. 4844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Castillo ◽  
Javier Molina-García ◽  
Isaac Estevan ◽  
Ana Queralt ◽  
Octavio Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Leisure Time Physical Activity ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Learning Climate ◽  
Transformational Teaching

In the context of education, this study examined the relationship between perceiving a transformational physical education (PE) teacher and student’s leisure-time physical activity (PA). Furthermore, we tested the potential mediation role of motivational learning climate, passion and self-determined motivation in this relationship. The sample was composed of 2210 high-school PE students (1145 males, 1065 females) between 16 and 20 years of age. Results of structural equation modeling revealed that the perceived transformational PE teacher–PA outcomes relationship was stronger when students perceived a task-involving climate, when they were harmoniously passionate, and when they were self-determined. We conclude that students’ health-enhancing behaviours could be improved if their PE teachers use transformational teaching style and created a task-oriented learning climate.

The role of teachers’ motivation and mindsets in predicting a (de)motivating teaching style in higher education: a circumplex approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branko Vermote ◽  
Nathalie Aelterman ◽  
Wim Beyers ◽  
Leen Aper ◽  
Fanny Buysschaert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Role Of Teachers

scholarly journals On the social and religious status of an Indian astrologer at the royal court

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Audrius Beinorius
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
Institutional Authority ◽  
The Social ◽  
Patronage System

Vilnius UniversityThe object of this paper is to investigate the social and religious status of an astrologer at the royal court and his relation to royal priests in medieval Indian society. This paper is confined to the social and religious role of an astrologer as it was perceived by members of society, both practicing astrologers and non-astrologers. By consulting different primary sources (i.e., jyotiḥśāstras, dharmaśāstras, purāṇas and epics), one can have some appreciation of various issues regarding, for example, the conditions in which royal astrologers operated, their duties and royal supporters, the salaries they obtained, and many other similar matters of extreme importance for the location of the astrologer within the larger social panorama. The conclusion is made that in India by the Epic times, at least, the astrologer had become one of the six principal officials of the royal court and gradually assumed some of the duties of the royal priest (purohita). In India even the position of royal astrologer had its sanction in myth. Astrology, therefore, was considered divine in origin as well as in its subject matter. The court astrologer was considered indispensible to the king and to the welfare of the kingdom. The astrologer had enormous power and responsibility at the royal court and at every level of society. The astrologer was fulfilling his role as an institutional authority by providing knowledge and understanding to the royal court and society. Indian astrologers had to depend on a patronage system for their sustenance, and they seem to have exploited that system with some success.

Say and stancetaking in courtroom talk: a corpus-assisted study

Corpora ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Szczyrbak
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Authority ◽  
Patterns Of Use ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Basic Communication

Approached as an interactional phenomenon, stance is realised through varied linguistic devices and practices which need not be overtly evaluative. Say, the basic communication verb which indicates the source of knowledge and, thus, perspectivises the information imparted by speakers, is one such resource. Its stancetaking potential is exploited, among other settings, in the courtroom or in the police interview room, where institutional authority is exerted and the facts of legal stories are ‘fixed’ and formulated ( Holt and Johnson, 2010 ; and Johnson, 2014 ). Combining corpus and discourse-analytic perspectives ( Partington et al., 2013 ), this study explores the patterns of use and distribution of the verb say in a libel trial, demonstrating its role in the interactional co-construction of stance. It also provides insight into how more powerful participants use say as a means of claiming epistemic priority and asserting authority – or more broadly, to position themselves towards less powerful speakers. The analysis focusses in particular on the role of say in ‘shifting standpoints’, ‘challenging standpoints’, ‘reality reconstruction’ and ‘standpoint continuity’.

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