Session Three Activity Three-Solution
to Hazard Authority Case Study
1. Positional authority is talked about when
the students discuss the policeman. Positional authority is the result
of a title or job.
2. Personal authority in Sue Hazzard’s classroom is found
when the student says, “He’s not your mother or father or even your friend,
and he can’t tell you.” This is an example of positional authority
because the statement is focused on ‘whom’ the grown-up or person is that
tells them to do something.
3. Lawmakers and law enforcers are examples of expert authority
in the passage from Sue Hazzard’s class. The focus of expert authority
is to be an expert in a subject area.
4. I think the purposes of Miss Hazzard’s conversation
is to establish an understanding of authority and to view how to deal with
conformity in an appropriate way.
5. I would engage students in this type of discussion because
as teachers we are to prepare students for all aspects of their life after
school and that includes appropriate social behavior. In this situation,
it would not make the discussion a big thing, but social issues should be
addressed on the side when and where the opportunity poses itself naturally.
Forcing an issue that does not seem relevant to a class may decrease motivation
to listen to the teacher.
6. Sue appears to use a large amount of guidance in her
discussion. She is not lecturing and the students are not using Miss
Hazzard as a mediator. In a hidden curriculum she is mediating the
issue of slugging someone without specifically dealing with two students
who are fighting.