Role Theory and Teacher Education

Possible relationships between groups of teachers and their role performances are investigated. Teachers are grouped on the basis of their pupils’ socio-economic status, teacher's age, length of teaching experience, and teacher's ethnic or racial membership. These variables are studied within the conceptual framework of social role theory. The study involves a review of literature pertinent to role theory and teacher behavior. A theoretical social role model is developed to aid in investigating actual teacher behavior while performing the role of a teacher. The concept of social role is employed because it tends to integrate three major dimensions of human social behavior: the expectational, the situational, and the personal. Field application of this study involved sixty female intermediate grade teachers. These teachers were selected from twelve schools located in one of the largest urban school districts in southern Arizona.

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Changes in perceptions of the alcohol environment among participants in a Photovoice project conducted in two districts with different socio-economic status

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0254978 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (8) ◽

pp. e0254978

Author(s):

Irene Molina-de la Fuente ◽

Andrea Pastor ◽

Paloma Conde ◽

María Sandín Vázquez ◽

Carmen Ramos ◽

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Keyword(s):

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Social Role ◽

Economic Status ◽

Alcohol Exposure ◽

Alcohol Advertising ◽

Socio Economic Status ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

The Subject ◽

And Gender

Perceptions of the alcohol environment may influence alcohol consumption patterns. The purpose of this study was to describe changes in perceptions of the urban alcohol environment as experienced by residents of two districts with different socio-economic status after taking part in a Photovoice study. The study was conducted in Madrid, Spain, in a district with a high socio-economic status (HSES) and another district with a low socio-economic status (LSES). A Photovoice project was conducted with 26 participants divided into four groups based on sex and district. Groups met over five sessions in which they discussed photographs taken by the participants themselves on the subject of alcohol in their neighbourhood. A qualitative, descriptive and thematic analysis of participants’ discourses was performed to explore changes in their perceptions of the alcohol environment over the project sessions. Changes in perceptions of the alcohol environment were observed in all groups over the project. The process of change varied by districts’ socio-economic characteristics and gender. Greater changes in perceptions of the alcohol environment were observed in HSES, especially among women, as the participants had a much more positive initial view of their alcohol environment. In LSES, participants showed a more critical perception of the alcohol environment from the beginning of the study, and this broadened and intensified over the course of the sessions. Changes in perceptions also varied by thematic categories, including some categories that were discussed from the start (e.g. socialising and alcohol consumption) and categories that only emerged in later sessions (e.g. alcohol advertising). Involvement in a Photovoice project has favoured a shift in the participant’s perceptions of their alcohol environment towards more critical positions, widening their scope of perceived elements and raising their awareness of specific problems, such as alcohol advertising and social role of alcohol consumption in relation to alcohol exposure.

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Building Productive Relationships: District Leaders’ Advice to Researchers

International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership ◽

10.22230/ijepl.2017v12n4a770 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Christopher Harrison ◽

Kristen Davidson ◽

Caitlin Farrell

Keyword(s):

School Districts ◽

Urban School ◽

Urban School Districts ◽

District Leaders ◽

Educational Improvement

Expectations for the role of research in educational improvement are high. Meeting these expectations requires productive relationships between researchers and practitioners. Few studies, however, have systematically explored the ways researchers can build stronger, more productive relationships with practitioners. This study seeks to identify such strategies by examining district leaders’ views of how researchers might work with practitioners in more effective, beneficial, and collaborative ways. Through an analysis of 147 interviews with 80 district leaders in three urban school districts, we identify several key pieces of advice highlighted by district leaders for researchers. For researchers, these findings reveal potential strategies for shaping the design, conduct, and communication of their research in order to ensure its usefulness for practitioners.

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EWALUACJA ROLI SPOŁECZNEJ NAUCZYCIELI JĘZYKA NIEMIECKIEGO W KONTEKŚCIE ZABURZENIA STABILIZACJI ZAWODOWEJ

Neofilolog ◽

10.14746/n.2019.53.2.6 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 227-247

Author(s):

Ewa Papierz-Łapsa

Keyword(s):

Technological Progress ◽

Role Model ◽

Social Role ◽

Educational Process ◽

Foreign Languages ◽

World Culture ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

Changing Role

In an era of dynamically changing socio-economics and technological progress, many aspects of school education are being transformed. Teachers are required to be professional in the form of a demand for increasingly higher professional qualifications and competences, but are also required to fulfil specific social roles. These new determinants of the functioning of education create difficulties in the construction of the teacher's identity because the changes which are being introduced disturb professional stability and cause fears about the future. The challenge is to try to answer universal questions about the professional identity of the teacher, the ability to combine an exceptional sense of service, vocation and mission. This situation affects teachers of German and other foreign languages (FL). The aim of this paper is to show how teachers of German as a FL perceive the changing school and how they assess the educational process that they co-create. Through biographical interviews, analyzed within the framework of Rubacha’s social role model (2000), an attempt is made to answer the question of how the social role of German teachers is changing as a result of the educational reform initiated in 2017 and what dilemmas are being caused by the changing role of the teacher. Statements from participants of the study will be presented that illustratethe disorder of stabilization of the profession, which results in a critical attitude to the changing situation in school, a disturbed attitude to the world, culture and other people. Impairment of the professional stabilization of German teachers is viewed in the context of the concept of their social role.

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Do You Still Trust?

ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems ◽

10.1145/3508484.3508487 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 52 (4) ◽

pp. 9-44

Author(s):

Gaurav Bansal ◽

Merrill Warkentin

Keyword(s):

Role Theory ◽

Social Role ◽

Privacy Concern ◽

Privacy Concerns ◽

Socioemotional Selectivity ◽

Four Dimensions ◽

Data Breaches ◽

Secondary Use ◽

Trusting Beliefs

Recently, data breaches, especially insider data breaches, have become increasingly common. However, there is a limited amount of research on the factors associated with the decrease in users' trust in response to these events. In this study, social role theory and socioemotional selectivity theory are applied to understand the role of age (younger and older), biological (male and female) and cultural (masculinity and femininity) gender, and the four dimensions of privacy concern-collection, secondary use, unauthorized access, and error-on initial trust and the corresponding decrease in trust associated with the three trust beliefs of ability, benevolence, and integrity. A scenario-based approach is used to focus on a case study of an insider breach. The findings also provide helpful insights into the comparative roles of trust builders (e.g., reputation and design) and trust crashers (e.g., privacy concerns) in the process of trust building and trust decrease in different demographics (e.g., older and younger, males and females) for overall trust and trusting beliefs. Theoretical, managerial, and social implications are discussed.

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Gender plays different roles? Examining the dark side of ubiquitous connectivity enabled by personal IT ensembles usage

Information Technology and People ◽

10.1108/itp-07-2020-0520 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Yingying Hu ◽

Ling Zhao ◽

Sumeet Gupta ◽

Xiuhong He

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Role Theory ◽

Information Overload ◽

Social Role ◽

Two Dimensions ◽

Dark Side ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Content Type ◽

The Social

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to explore the negative consequences of ubiquitous connectivity enabled by personal IT ensembles (PITEs) usage; and second, to investigate the gender differences in the adverse effects of ubiquitous connectivity.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs a socio-technical approach to identify the technical and interpersonal dimensions of PITE-enabled ubiquitous connectivity and develops a theoretical model to investigate their stress-inducing effects based on the framework of technostress. Furthermore, the moderating role of gender is examined based on the social role theory. The authors test the model on a sample of 439 Chinese netizens.FindingsUbiquitous technical and interpersonal connectivity induce four stressors: information overload, communication overload, life invasion and privacy invasion. These stressors further lead to psychological exhaustion and reluctance to try new ITs. The ubiquitous technical connectivity exerts stronger effects on stressors for female users than male users, and interpersonal connectivity exerts a stronger effect for male users than female users.Originality/valueThis study primarily contributes to the small amount of research on PITE-enabled ubiquitous connectivity by considering ubiquitous connectivity from a socio-technical perspective and examining the stress-related effects and outcomes of both technical and interpersonal dimensions of ubiquitous connectivity. This study also provides valuable insights into the gender differences in the stress-inducing effects of the two dimensions of ubiquitous connectivity.

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Implementasi Pendidikan Karakter Pada Pendidikan Non Formal Di Bimbingan Belajar Be Star Kelurahan Cempaga Kecamatan Bangli Kabupaten Bangli

Jurnal Penelitian Agama Hindu ◽

10.25078/jpah.v2i2.661 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 564

Author(s):

A.A. Ayu Setiawati ◽

I Nyoman Temon Astawa ◽

Ni Wayan Satri Adnyani

Keyword(s):

Character Education ◽

Role Model ◽

Formal Education ◽

Role Theory ◽

Routine Activities ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Data Presentation ◽

Spontaneous Activities ◽

Be Star

Character education is an effort to educate children so that they can make decision wisely and can practice them in their daily lives. Be Star tutoring is one of the non formal education that seeks to implement character education in the proses of tutoring and outside the prosess of tutoring. The problems to be discussed in this article are 1) Efforts in the implemention of character education in non formal education at Be Star tutoring in Cempaga Village Bangli District Bangli Regency. 2) Obstacles faced in the implementation of character education in non formal education at Be Star tutoring in Cempaga Village Bangli District Bangli Regency. 3) The role of teacher in implementation of charcter education at Be Star tutoring in Cempaga Village Bangli District Bangli Regency. The theories used to analyze the problems were Atitude Theory, Behavioristic Theory, Role Theory. Data collection methodes were observation, interviews, literature studies and documentation. The data that had been collected was analyzed through data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. The results of the study show 1) Efforts in the implemention of character education in non formal education in at Be Star tutoring in Cempaga Village Bangli District Bangli Regency that is habituation activities including routine activities and spontaneous activities of exemplary advice and the application of eighteen characters. 2). Obstacles faced in the implementation of character education in non formal education at Be Star tutoring in Cempaga Village Bangli District Bangli Regency namely the limited time and environment, the influence of information technology, as well as parenting. 3). The role of teacher in implementation of charcter education at Be Star tutoring in Cempaga Village Bangli District Bangli Regency namely as a teacher, as a role model, as an inspiration, as a motivator, as dynamisator, and evaluator.

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Fit and Congruency

Journal of Personnel Psychology ◽

10.1027/1866-5888/a000233 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 148-156

Author(s):

Mary Hogue ◽

Lee Fox-Cardamone ◽

Deborah Erdos Knapp

Keyword(s):

Role Theory ◽

Social Role ◽

Gender Diversity ◽

Job Fit ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Working Adults ◽

Role Congruity ◽

Self Selection ◽

Selection Of

Abstract. Applicant job pursuit intentions impact the composition of an organization’s applicant pool, thereby influencing selection outcomes. An example is the self-selection of women and men into gender-congruent jobs. Such self-selection contributes to a lack of gender diversity across a variety of occupations. We use person-job fit and the role congruity perspective of social role theory to explore job pursuit intentions. We present research from two cross-sectional survey studies (520 students, 174 working adults) indicating that at different points in their careers women and men choose to pursue gender-congruent jobs. For students, the choice was mediated by value placed on the job’s associated gender-congruent outcomes, but for working adults it was not. We offer suggestions for practitioners and researchers.

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