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Makale Özeti:
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Teachers are concerned with effective teaching in their classrooms, and there are times they
employ some techniques to this end. One influential factor promoting the quality of teaching, for
classroom practitioners, is to shape their use of authority and act of teaching around robust theories.
However, it is not always an easy task for them to regulate their teaching according to the current
theoretical frames in the ever-changing atmosphere of a classroom. Technique oriented approaches
focusing the attention more on techniques than understanding lead practitioners to adhere to topdown
approaches. Normalized antidemocratic values infiltrating into the school culture further
reshape teachers’ use of authority. Therefore, there are times teachers find themselves demonstrating
teaching acts inclined towards obsolete theories, justified beliefs, or cultural myths.
There are three inherent factors misleading classroom practitioners’ authority. Those include
theoretical vulnerability of their teaching acts, infiltration of behaviorist discourses into their
practices, as well as the force of crystallized myths upon their act of teaching. Such contaminating
factors, in particular, lure practitioners into the pitfalls of authoritarianism that, in the long run,
silences students or of laissez-faire and indifferent approaches that eventually undermine the process of
democratization by inviting teacher authoritarianism to the forefront. This study aims to clarify what
are meant by four different authority (authoritarian, authoritative, laissez-faire, and indifferent) and to
analyze the way novice teachers fall into the alluring pitfalls of authoritarian, laissez-faire, and indifferent
approaches.
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