Modern teachers exchange personalized classroom power for bureaucratic rule-bound authority

Evidence

Hence, like the view of the child, the concept of discipline has itself changed. Two aspects of this change are particularly important. First, the once highly personalized authority of the teacher has become a part of the bureaucratic structure of the modern school. Unlike the teachers in the chaotic early nineteenth-century district schools, modern teachers exercise less personal power and rely more heavily on regulations promulgated by higher authorities. Although frequently prey to arbitrary intervention by parents and other community members, the nineteenth-century teacher was the boss of the classroom. The modern teacher is in a more ambiguous position. The very rules and regulations which add a patina of social authority to his or her commands at the same time rigidly circumscribe the teacher’s freedom of action. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 491

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the historical shift from personalized to bureaucratic authority that mirrors the transformation of workplace management from craft to Taylorized oversight. — connects to: Teacher authority historically derived from expertise and entitled pronouncement over students — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 719; ‘Teacher-proofing’ curricula deskill teachers into semi-skilled workers — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 193; Shared teacher authority keeps power but redirects it toward democratic student partnership — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 744 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Shared teacher authority keeps power but redirects it toward democratic student partnership #qualifies (0.75) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 744
• Modern bureaucracy reimagined citizens as regulated particles in a machine #exemplifies (0.72)
• Surveillance-based schooling constructs individuality only as a position in a sequence #corroborates (0.72) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 262