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Abstract
Authority is one of the most problematic and ambiguous concepts in social and educational theory. Authority is a relation that is based on disparities of knowledge, expertise or experience. Drawing on teaching observations and interviews with undergraduate students and lecturers about their experiences of large-group teaching, I argue that in contrast to lecturers’ focus on professional authority and expertise, many students respond most strongly to experiential forms of authority in lectures. In other words, there is a disparity between students’ and educators’ conceptions of pedagogic authority. Through a discussion of a teaching intervention aiming to playfully experiment with authority relations in the lecture theatre, the paper contributes to a conceptualization of an emancipatory and experimental politics of educational authority, one where students are challenged, not only to think independently, but to see their own existence – the grounds for their actions – as an important intellectual problem to engage with. This requires moving beyond the dominant Weberian ideal types of educational authority (traditional, rational-legal, charismatic, and charismatic-intellectual) towards a fuller understanding of experiential forms of authority.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Geography and Planning (GEOPL) |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN: | 0309-8265 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 16 December 2019 |
Date of Acceptance: | 25 November 2019 |
Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2023 21:37 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/127586 |
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