Teacher-student relationships

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Keddie, Amanda and Churchill, Rick. 2005. "Teacher-student relationships ." Pendergast, Donna and Bahr, Nan (ed.) Teaching middle years: rethinking curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. Crows Nest, NSW. Allen & Unwin. pp. 211-225
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Teacher-student relationships

Book Chapter CategoryEdited book (chapter)
ERA Publisher ID1092
Book TitleTeaching middle years: rethinking curriculum, pedagogy and assessment
AuthorsKeddie, Amanda (Author) and Churchill, Rick (Author)
EditorsPendergast, Donna and Bahr, Nan
Page Range211-225
Year2005
PublisherAllen & Unwin
Place of PublicationCrows Nest, NSW
ISBN1741146739
Web Address (URL)http://www.allenandunwin.com/Shopping/SearchResults.aspx?search=teaching+middle+years
Abstract

Mutually respectful student-teacher relationships are central to improving educational experiences in the middle years. As much research continues to confirm, teachers relating well to their students remains one of the most significant factors in generating positive academic and social outcomes. Developing these sorts of
relationships, however, necessarily involves problematising the traditional power inequities that exist between teachers and students. This chapter explores this
premise and identifies ways that teacher practice, through a tendency to be mobilised around relations of domination and control, can constrain learning outcomes by suppressing students' sense of legitimacy and agency. Drawing on data
and findings from two Australian studies, we bring these issues to life through detailing students' concerns about their relationships with their teachers. Given
'[the first imperative of some teachers when teaching boys appears to be 'controlling' rather than teaching them' (Lingard et al. 2002, p. 4), our focus in this chapter
is on boys' experiences of schooling in the Middle Years. We do not wish to silence or marginalise girls' experiences, but the boys' voices featured here are most useful in making visible the constitutive nature of authoritative and coercive school and classroom relations (Davies 2000). As an issue of power and control, we explore these relations within the context of boys' investments in dominant constructions of masculinity. Drawing on the dimension of Supportive Classroom Environment, within the Productive Pedagogies framework (The State of Queensland 2001), the chapter concludes with a discussion of a number of ways in which schools might
take these issues forward to establish more genuinely equitable and positive student-teacher relationships.

Keywordsteacher-student relationships; student-teacher relationships; middle years; boys
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020390402. Education assessment and evaluation
390102. Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development
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Journal TitleTeaching middle years: rethinking pedagogy and assessment
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