Interesting social sciences/Pedagogy. School
Four personality types of teachers.
English subtitles exist in this video. Valery Starikov. Interesting social studies. On the cover - Sergey Yursky as Soroka-Rosinsky in the film "Republic of SKID." Soroka-Rosinsky and four "breeds" (personality type) of teachers.
Personality types of pupils.
English subtitles exist in this video.
Valery Starikov against Makarenko's utopia.
English subtitles exist in this video.A difficult situation with discipline has developed in a modern Russian school. How to solve this problem?
School reform in Russia.
On the cover is a still from the film - Yeralash. 40 devils and one green fly. Cast - Evgeny Morgunov and Gennady Khazanov. Valery Starikov. Interesting social studies. English subtitles exist in this video. Comparison of school reforms in Britain and Russia.Higher Education Education Services Market
My purpose is a comparison of results of the school’s reforms in Russia and in Britain.
School’s reform has begun in Britain (in 1988) earlier, then in Russia. School’s reform in Russia has conducted on a sample of new‐conservative school’s reform in Britain, that allow to predict the follow steps of school’s reform in Russia, to avoid repetition of mistakes in carrying out this reform in Britain.
School reform in Britain
[edit | edit source]The main purposes of the school’s reform in Britain:
- It is necessary to force of schools to compete with each other for the preference of parents and pupils.
- It is necessary to create for pupils the freedom to choose of schools. It is necessary to create for schools the freedom to choice of quality of pupils.
- It is necessary to orient the attention of school administration to the needs of the economy. It is necessary to orient the attention of school administration to the teaching of the necessary professions. Consultants (major sponsors and local entrepreneurs) have entered to the composition of school boards for this purpose.
Financing sources of schools in Britain after reforms
[edit | edit source]- There is the state order. Schools begin to receive the money directly from the Ministry of education after reform, bypassing local education agencies in the size of a certain amount of money for each pupil. Than more pupils is educated in school, that more money this school receives from the Ministry of education. As a result some schools by itself were bankrupted and some schools by itself were closed because of falling of the quantity of pupils and the corresponding reduction of money. In fact, the government pays this money for education of rather poor pupils. The meaning of local agencies of education has declined, and it is necessary to close these agencies of education, for example, Department of education of the central region of London was closed, formally – because of the bloated staff, actually – for resistance to reform and for upholding of the position of the equal opportunities in education.
- Sponsor's help and paid educational services exist.
The equal right to education, but unequal results of education
[edit | edit source]Non State private privileged schools are capable to give the highest level of education in Britain, this schools exist on money of parents solely. The British public school acts as “sorting” system named “streaming". Thus, a unified State school was liquidated in Britain because unified State school was focused on the equality in education. Privileges don't exist in modern capitalist society, people have equal opportunities, but people have unequal abilities by their nature, therefore people should have unequal incomes and unequal levels of education on justice. Government provides the opportunity to receive higher education at the expense of the state budget for talented, but rather poor pupils, but it is not the sense to give higher education to all pupils. System of “sorting” allows to develop various inclinations at pupils, for example, the inclination to technics, economics or music, system of “sorting” allows to give skills and abilities instead of abstract and often useless education. For example, the privileged schools bring up the elite in Britain, and technical schools bring up the skilled workers. Neo‐conservators consider that the ability to manage by people, adventurousness and business grasp are much more important under advancing on the social ladder than ability to study.
Steps of school reform in Britain:
[edit | edit source]- Introduction of the national basic program guaranteeing that all pupils study the same important subjects to sixteen-year age.
- Introduction of national testing of knowledge. It is necessary to published the results of these tests that parents were able to compare the level of teaching in different schools.
- Introduction of school boards which distribute incomes of school, for example, school boards are distributing the incomes of schools on the salary of teachers, on repair of the classrooms or on the books for library.
- Introduction of free reception and expel of pupils from school, irrespective of the residence when the school seeks to achieve the opposite objectives – on the one hand, to expand the number of pupils in school, on the other hand, to improve quality of educational services in this school and to preserve reputation of decent school. Expansion of number of pupils increases the sum of income. But reputation of school suffers because of reception of a bad pupils. The reputation of school suffers because of decrease in results of tests. The reputation of school suffers because of decrease in level of discipline at a lesson. The reputation of school suffers because of decrease of quality of teaching when good pupils begin to leave to other more prestigious schools, and the school forced to specialize on training of pupils with bad behavior and from poor families only. After that the prestige of this school perishes finally. Therefore schools try to expand, whenever possible, number of pupils at the expense of good pupils. Schools compete with each other for involvement of good pupils that to preserve reputation. Reduction of the number of pupils, eventually, leads to closing of school because of financial problems.
Disputes around the school reform in Britain
[edit | edit source]Method of testing of knowledge has caused the numerous disputes about effectiveness of testing and protests against excessive toughening of difficulties of questions of tests. Method of testing of knowledge has caused protests against the announcement of their results. Teachers claim that tests don't take into account of differences in level of abilities for pupils. Teachers claim that tests are opened for a juggling, that tests require of excessive efforts from teachers for training of pupils to examination, while teachers are so loaded excessively also. Ministers of education, on the other hand, say that tests raise quality of teaching and tests provide information for parents about quality of teaching at each school.
Conclusion: system of the education has turned into a form of business in Britain and this system allowed to improve the quality of teaching.[1]
School reform in Russia
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The list of problems existed in system of the Russian school’s education before the reform:
[edit | edit source]- The low level of teaching existed, when the teacher hasn't interested in improving of the quality of teaching. Private property of the enterprise is more effective than state ownership in any sphere of business, including the education. Market competition is better than the normative distribution of services.
- The low level of discipline existed in the Soviet and Russian school, where the administration of school could not expel of pupil from school for bad behavior and for bad estimations. School administration can’t expel of pupil in Russia and today.
Course of carrying out of school reform in Russia.
School reform has begun with development of standards all subjects, then process of licensing and certification of educational institutions has begun. Some schools were able to pass this procedure with the second attempt only. Unified State Exam was conducted in the form of tests in 2003 at first, this examination has shown tha a different quality of teaching exists in different schools. Method of testing, despite all shortcomings, gives an objective picture of the level of teaching, when the teacher is deprived of opportunity to overestimate or to underestimate the estimation for pupil even for bribe or under pressure of administration.
7 schools (№4, 6, 7, 13, 22, 26, 27) from 30 schools and 1 technical school (№ 8) from 9 technical schools were closed down in the town Berezniki of Perm Krai in Russia in recent years, because of reducing of birth rate in the 90th years of the 20th century, but increase of birth rate has began in Russia with 2013. The Ministry of education is going to pay in the near future to the each school for quantity of pupils which learn in this school. Reduction of quantity of pupils has led to a reduction of quantity of teachers in schools already. Administration of schools is forced to gather the money from parents of pupils for repair of school and for protection of pupils, administration of schools is forced to search sponsors, first of all from among rich parents of pupils. Cases of closure of local agencies of education don't exist in Russia. Some schools have gone to way of improve its reputation with help of specialization on teaching of certain subjects – physics, mathematics or English, with help of creating Cadet classes, with help of creating courses of drivers or courses of informatics. Other schools create paid courses with the purpose to earn additional money. Thus, each school tries to find a own niche on market of educational services.
It is necessary to expect of following steps of school reform in Russia in future by example of Britain :
[edit | edit source]- the official establishing of system of “sorting” for pupils and decreasing of the age of possible expel of pupils from school.
- increasing the quantity of private paid schools.
- deepening of process of flourishing some schools and closing of others schools.
- growth of degree of horizontal mobility (growth of frequency of transitions) pupils from one school to another school.
The market of educational services in system of higher education in Russia
[edit | edit source]The emergence and flourishing of paid education and market of educational services have entered amendments in sistem of vocational secondary education (vocational school and colleges) and higher education in Russia. Almost any higher education is partly paid today. Thus, each university has income from sales of their educational services in addition to income from the state order in Russia today. The nature of relationships between teacher and student has changed in conditions of paid education. If the character of this conditions kept within principle “chief‐subordinate” before education reform, when the teacher could expel of student for bad estimations, that the character of this partnership conditions keeps within principle “seller of knowledge and diplomas - buyer of knowledges and diplomas” today. System of education sells today the goods which have names “knowledge and diplomas”. Good discipline is based here on mutual interests in cooperation between teacher and student, rather than on threat before expel. Client (student) has the right to choose such university, which offers an acceptable quality of teaching for an acceptable price. Diplomas of different educational institutions have varying degrees of prestige on the market of labour. It cannot find a work with diplomas of some educational institutions because of low prestige of this university. Students take into account this fact today, when they enter into university. Demand and supply exist on the market of educational services. Educational institutions strive for to satisfy the agiotage demand as soon as possible on new prestigious and deficient professions, that to be ahead of competitors and to receive the excess profit. For example, such specialities as a lawyer, programmer and economist‐accountant were most in demand in the recent past, but agiotage demand was satisfied completely today, excess profit has disappeared and the consumer continues to choose this specialities only by inertia, while the demand for technical specialities has grown considerably today.
To bring closer the university to place of residence of consumers and to get rid from competition between universities in large cities, capital universities have begun to open branches in small towns. These branches are not able to provide acceptable quality of teaching often. Therefore, many provincial branches of capital universities were closed by the Ministry of Education of Russia today because of the low level of teaching in these branches. Two steps of education and two types of diplomas (bachelor's degree or master's degree) exist in Russian higher education depending from the number of years of learning and estimations of students in frameworks of the Bologna process. Each university was forced to engage by marketing (study of supply and demand on the market). Each university was forced by advertising of their educational services. Each university was forced to pay taxes from their income in the conditions of intense competition.
Conclusion: the creation of a market of educational services is a global tendency and Russia is at the beginning of this way. Building of education market should improve the quality of education and school discipline.
My pedagogy of conflict against utopia of Anton Makarenko
[edit | edit source]Pedagogy as science
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Pedagogy is pseudoscience in Russia today, pedagogy is sum of useless moral and utopian wishes of Nikolay Nekrasov “to sow the reasonable, the kind, the eternal” in Russia today. Pedagogy is a bird feeder for pseudo-scientists striving to receive the scientific degree without any own scientific contribution in Russia today. Teacher ‐ communist Anton Makarenko offered to build the penal colony for juvenile criminals and tramps on moral control, self‐government and pressure on colonist My pedagogy of conflict against utopia of Anton Makarenko Pedagogy as science
Anton Makarenko
Pedagogy is pseudoscience in Russia today, pedagogy is sum of useless moral and utopian wishes of Nikolay Nekrasov “to sow the reasonable, the kind, the eternal” in Russia today. Pedagogy is a bird feeder for pseudo-scientists striving to receive the scientific degree without any own scientific contribution in Russia today. Teacher ‐ communist Anton Makarenko offered to build the penal colony for juvenile criminals and tramps on moral control, on self‐government and on pressure on colonist from small groups. It has appeared in fact that to build the school on utopian ideas of Anton Makarenko is impossible task for real organization. It is necessary to dispel this utopian "dream", it is necessary to deprive a utopia of her charm. It is necessary to look on school without illusions. The serious crisis with discipline has turned out in modern Russian school as a result of application of utopian theory of Anton Makarenko on practice. How is it possible to solve this problem? In what way is this problem solved in the West successfully?
In my opinion, it is impossible in principle to build the any organization on moral control, that is it is impossible to build the organization on the threat of use of such moral sanctions as praise or insult. Only such small groups as family or group of friends can be built on moral control. Quantity of members can not exceed 15 people in this small group. Whereas quantity of members in organization can reach several thousands of people sometimes, therefore organization can be built on armed, administrative or economic control only. The teacher was deprived of opportunity to apply any sanctions in relation of the pupil for bad behavior in Russia from 1917 and till now actually. The teacher was deprived of the opportunity to leave of pupil for grade retention for bad estimations The teacher was deprived of opportunity to expel of pupil from school. It is guaranteed the completed secondary education for all pupils, even when the pupil doesn't want to study and the pupil prevents to study of other pupils. Full secondary education is guaranteed even to such pupils who cannot learn it because of their low mental abilities. In fact, these pupils with low mental abilities or school hooligans are given false estimations and a false certificate of the school. Only such pupils can be left on grade retention who didn't attend school at all for months. The administration of school may dismiss the teacher for that this teacher put the many unsatisfactory estimations. Parents may submit a complaint on teachers in higher authorities. In fact, school teacher can not punish to pupils for bad behavior in modern Russian school. Pupils provoke of teachers on conflict using this anarchy in school, pupils scoff of teachers, pupils break a lesson, pupils provoke that teacher beats of pupil, pupils shoot this scene on video and then pupils write the complaint on this teacher to police, that leads to the dismissal of this teacher or this teacher gets to prison even. Сases exist when pupils beat and kill of teachers for bad estimations even. Pupils know well their rights today and pupils declare to teacher about their rights whenever possible that teacher has no right to put the unsatisfactory estimations for bad behavior. Administration of school requires from teachers to bring the order with discipline on lesson, but this administration does not give in hands of this teacher the possibility to apply the penalties against the infringers of school discipline. Thus, the teacher gets into the desperate situation. If chief of organization is deprived of opportunity to apply the sanctions in relation to the subordinates completely, then this organization begins to collapse directly in front of eyes, where the insuperable conflicts arise between the chiefs and subordinates, subordinates begin to order to chiefs.
If Sir Thomas More has told “sheeps eat up and swallow down of people” in period of enclosure in England, then in my opinion “sheeps command by shepherds” in modern Russian school. Whether we like it or not, but society in general, and any organization in particular, for example school, are constructed on the relations of control and conflict for the power between citizens or employees. Any subordinated man dreams to become by a chief, any subordinated man feels a sense of protest in response to the imposing of negative sanctions to him, therefore such subordinated man aspires to conflict with own chief under any convenient case, when chances on success appear at this subordinated man in this conflict, for example, when chief has not the right to punish of own subordinated man.
The regional authorities in Perm Krai have begun to restore activity of the Сommissions on affairs of minors in response on cases of armed attack of pupils on teachers at schools of Russia. This Сommissions on affairs of minors had wright to send of school hooligans on term of 2 years to juvenile colony for attack on the teacher at period of Soviet power.
Conclusion: : The structure of juvenile colony of Anton Makarenko were fine at first sight but this structure were art fiction of the great storyteller in reality. Pedagogical science, like any science, should not be based on artistic fiction in the construction of a school. Evidences exist that even Anton Makarenko has met with great difficulties with the organization of real life of colony on one primitive moral sanctions, Anton Makarenko was exposed to insults by ordinary colonists and Anton Makarenko begun to beat of colonists. Moral control is a very ancient and primitive invention of epoch of primitive society and it is impossible to build a modern school on these ancient and primitive sanctions. Anton Makarenko was right that moral pressure on the pupil from small group is a great force, but nobody can guarantee that the norms offered by the teacher will coincide with the norms offered by informal leaders of a class. It happens more often that the teacher works in a condition of the conflict with informal leaders in fight for power at a lesson because the teacher and the informal leader offer opposite norms and opposite psychological pressure on pupils, for example, the teacher tries to reward of diligent pupils and the informal leader organizes insulting of diligent pupils. Self-government according to the model of Makarenko prevents that teacher can force obedience of informal leaders who will never agree to abandon voluntarily from pretensions on power in school.
Conclusion: it is necessary to restore of system of administrative control at the Russian school.
System of sorting of pupils in Britain as a sample for imitation for Russia
[edit | edit source]School system includes the system of “streaming” in England. The system of “streaming” is a system of the sorting of pupils on four streams. Pupils were sent on four streams at the age of 11 years after fourth class on the basis of tests and presence of money at his parents in four sorts of schools:
- independent school, that is private paid privileged schools (excellent schools),
- grammar schools (good schools),
- secondary modern school (mediocre schools)
- secondary technical schools (bad school).
Secondary technical schools have a low level of teaching and low prestige of certificate. Secondary technical schools in England is an analogue of professional ‐ technical school in Russia, where the main subject is technology, where pupils are trained to simple working professions but where pupils aren't trained to professions of businessman, politician and other highly skilled professions. Pupil enters to professional‐technical school in Russia after ending of 9 class of school in age of 15 yeas old. If pupil shows the inclination to disobedience to teachers in Secondary technical school in Britain, then administration of Secondary technical school has opportunity to expel of this pupil for bad behavior and to deprive of this pupil of opportunity to receive a simple working profession even and administration of Secondary technical school has opportunity to deprive of this pupil of opportunity to earn on a piece of bread for self. Thus, opportunity appears in the hands of the modern English teacher to apply administrative sanctions to pupil for bad behavior. English teacher can send pupil to school of lowest sort or to deprive of pupil of opportunity to receive of education in general.
The difference between the English schools and Russian schools is the following.
- it is possible to expel from school in 11 years in England, and it isn't possible to expel in Russia before 15 years in general.
- four sorts schools exist In England, and formal system of sorting don't exist for schools depending on quality of training in Russia.
- Bad pupil and his parents are forced to look for school in England which will agree to teach this bad pupil, whereas a good teacher are forced to look for school with a acceptable level of discipline in Russia. Ministry of education does not give to school the right to expel of pupil on this reason in Russia because the Ministry of education is afraid of indignation and protests by parents. In my opinion, such protests are possible from parents of bad pupils only and parents of good pupils will happy to introduce a similar system of sorting, because parents of good pupils forced to look for the school with good level of discipline today too. Spontaneous process of formation of system of sorting for schools occurs all the same because of transitions of pupils from one school to other school in Russia today. The introduction of system for "streaming" will allow to legalize these spontaneous processes in the Russian school.
The basic theses of my pedagogy of conflict
[edit | edit source]School has to train of pupils to difficulties of the future life. If human society is constructed on the relations of social conflict and social control, on stratification between rich people and poor people, on division on employers and hired workers, that it is necessary to train to this relations of pupils in school already. It is necessary to cultivate at pupils the readiness to submission when it is necessary, and readiness to enter to conflict when chances on success exist in the aspiration to power. My observations show that violators of school discipline have big problems in life due to the lack of this readiness for submission and too high ambitions subsequently. Violators of school discipline are incapable neither to work, nor to study at university subsequently. These violators of school discipline become by violators of labour discipline, by unemployed, alcoholics, criminals, drug addict often or as an exception these violators of school discipline become by individual entrepreneurs. If parents accused the school in all sins in the past, then this parents receive the huge problems with the employment of their adult children subsequently. The destiny revenges to these parents by such way for complaints on teachers.
Conclusions: Excellent in appearance pedagogical ideas of Anton Makarenko turn out such harmful utopia in practice, as "scientific" communism of Karl Marx. It is necessary to give the right to school to expel of pupils from schools since 11 years in Russia. It is impossible to give to the pupil a guarantee of receiving upper secondary education. It is necessary to construct the system of sorting of pupils ("streaming") in Russia on base of English samples.
The style of teaching at the different personality types of teachers.
[edit | edit source]The famous russian teacher Victor Nikolaevich Soroka-Rosinsky named four "breeds" of teachers which description very much reminds the description of my four personality types:
- teoretist,
- realists,
- proponents of utilitarianism,
- actors.
My observations were collected during 14 years of work at secondary school as the teacher of history and social sciences. I conducted daily observations for characteristics of behavior of the personality types at school. Each personality type has the unique style of teaching, the unique style of establishing of order at a lesson and the unique style of composition of textbooks. If the director of school know how to determine the personality type of teachers, then director of school can foresee the suitability degree, then director of school can foresee the strong and weak sides of these teachers in advance. If director of publishing house knows how to determine the personality type of the author of textbook, then this director of publishing house can foresee in advance suitability degree for the teaching of this textbook, which this author is capable to write. Only theorist is capable to create outstanding textbook. It is possible to foresee in advance that the hostile relations will arise between the opposite personality types in the school collective.
In my opinion, each personality type has a peculiar style of teaching, peculiar style of establishing order at a lesson and peculiar style of compositions:
- Teacher - psychologist knows how to create the warm friendly atmosphere in the lesson. Pupils relate to teacher-psychologist as to the prophet. Teacher-psychologist manages with his role of teacher in at elementary school best of all, where the pupils relate to teacher-psychologist as to the mother. Teacher - psychologist is the born tutor. Teacher - psychologist understands psychology of pupil perfectly, but teacher - psychologist is insufficiently exacting. Teacher - psychologist doesn't decide to use administrative sanctions to pupils. Teacher - psychologist doesn't decide to give negative grades, that leads to such mistake as relations of familiarity, especially in high school, where the pupils ‐ speakers begin to flirt with teacher - psychologist as with their girlfriend. Teacher - psychologist has a inclination to overestimate grades frequently. Teacher - psychologist does not monitoring the cleanliness in the classroom, where the desks start to collapse in the end of the academic year, because pupils - speakers have unscrewed all fixing bolts and nuts from desks for the sake of a joke. Teacher-psychologist does not know how to use “Stick”, but pupils love of teacher-psychologist for the kindness and understanding of their problems. Teacher-psychologist knows how to organize the evenings of rest. Teacher - psychologist knows how to dance and to sing of soulful songs. Teacher - psychologist doesn't love teaching method and teacher-psychologist doesn't prepare to conducting of lesson often. Teacher - psychologist hopes on the improvisation only. Teacher - psychologist doesn't have a plan of lesson often. Teacher - psychologist begins his speech and teacher - psychologist does not know, than he will finish own speech that he wants to prove. Too much pathos and spirituality exists in his speech, as if teacher - psychologist “prophesies” not in the school, but in the temple. Teacher - psychologist takes away conversation thread aside from the studied subject by a method of free associations often. Teacher - psychologist concedes to teacher-theorist in logic, teacher - psychologist concedes to teacher - technician in concreteness of thinking, teacher - psychologist concedes to teacher - speaker in the presence of the common sense and leadership skills. Pupils cannot answer intelligible on question about that such sciences as praxeology, culturology, ethics or another torn from the life pseudoscience were useful, the teacher - psychologist taught this sciences during half a year often. Such pupils have feeling that this pupils have wasted time simply.
- Teacher ‐ technician watch for pupils carefully. Teacher ‐ technician suppresses immediately all attempts of pupils to engage in extraneous affairs or to draw on the desk. That to keep purity of school desks, teacher ‐ technician forces of each pupil to be responsible for own desk, teacher ‐ technician checks the cleanliness of desks after each lesson. Teacher ‐ technician loves to speak moral sermon for a long time and to carp to each trifle. Teacher ‐ technician knows how loudly and with benefit to shout on pupils on the lesson. Teacher ‐ technician seeks of careful and accurate fulfillment of home works from pupils and teacher ‐ technician isn't sorry to spend a lot of time on checking of this home works. Teacher ‐ technician prefers to underestimate of grades and teacher ‐ technician prefers not to give excellent grades in general. Teacher ‐ technician has many conflicts with the pupils, but teacher ‐ technician copes with a problem of maintenance of discipline in general. Teacher ‐ technician likes teaching method more than other personality types of teachers, teacher ‐ technician likes to use different cards of tasks, plans of lessons, tests. Teacher ‐ technician forces of pupils to write dictionaries of terms, to remember all dates in history, to remember very long often outdated definitions and to work with maps. A certain backwardness and the superfluous conservatism of views is main problem of teacher ‐ technician in the process of the teaching of social sciences. It is very difficult for teacher ‐ technician to pass on teaching according to new textbooks, but new textbooks on the history and social sciences appear in Russia each year today. This teacher ‐ technician begins to lag behind the life hopeless, teacher ‐ technician tries to refuse flatly from teaching on the new textbooks; therefore administration of school forced to send this old reactionary to the pension. The reason for this backwardness lies in the fact that teacher ‐ technician lag in the development of abstract thinking in comparison with the theorists. It is possible to advise to teacher ‐ technician to select for the teaching such exact sciences as physics, technical drawing, computer studies or chemistry instead of the social sciences. School textbooks don't change by decades in the exact sciences, therefore it is possible to accumulate tests and cards of tasks entire life. Lectures of teacher - technician are boring and monotonous, there is no improvisation and fantasy in this lectures of teacher - technician, but teacher‐technician is capable to force of pupils to learn the outdated dogmas. Pupils sleep from the boredom at his lectures often. Teacher ‐ technician is capable to give good level of knowledge in general. Teacher ‐ technician knows how to hold distance between themselves and pupils. Teacher ‐ technician prefers the official style of relations with the subordinates and the chiefs.
- Teacher ‐ speaker knows how to support the highest level of discipline at the lesson, because teacher ‐ speaker is the born leader. Pupils relate to teacher‐speaker as to the father, even if teacher ‐ speaker is woman. Contrary to the teacher ‐ theorist, teacher ‐ speaker is interested by life of its pupils very much. Teacher ‐ speaker remembers their names always. His main problem is low theoretical level and superficial knowledge, because teacher ‐ speaker is interested by human relations and teacher ‐ speaker isn't interested by the content of the theories and books. Clever pupil (theorist) loses time at lectures of teacher ‐ speaker simply, what causes natural irritation at this clever pupil. Teacher ‐ speaker reads any additional literature on the subject never, besides state textbook; therefore teacher ‐ speaker is capable to retell this textbook word for word at a lesson only, although clever pupil is capable to read this textbook himself without assistance of teacher ‐ speaker. This teacher ‐ speaker seeks to become by head of school or the organizer of scientific conferences. Just teacher ‐ speaker is suitable for these roles better than other personality types, as teacher - speaker is the born leader and teacher ‐ speaker possesses the widest circle of contacts among these scientists, although scientists relate to teacher - speaker with the certain fraction of contempt because of the inclination of speaker toward the plagiarism. The teacher ‐ speaker has no inclination to creation of the original ideas, therefore teacher ‐ speaker is forced to steal of original ideas at other authors. The absence of inclination toward the creation of original ideas indicates complete professional unfitness of teacher - speaker to the role of scientist ‐ theorist, although the teacher-speaker can have the scientific degree, obtained “thanks to acquaintance” nevertheless. Teacher - speaker likes games and exercises in sphere of teaching method. Teacher - speaker passes on teaching according to new textbooks easily, because teacher - speaker had strong beliefs never, for example, if teacher - speaker represented from himself of convinced communist yesterday, then teacher - speaker represents from himself of the convinced supporter of liberalism today. If teacher - speaker said one idea yesterday then teacher - speaker can say the completely opposite idea today. Teacher ‐ speaker has no internal principles, teacher ‐ speaker focuses precisely on the prevailing beliefs, principles, viewpoints in society and science always and teacher ‐ speaker likes turn its nose into the wind.
- Teacher ‐ theorist knows how to attract interest to own subject better than others personality types. His lectures are very deep and original in the content, but teacher ‐ theorist is not interested by his pupils completely, teacher ‐ theorist doesn't know their names often even. Teacher ‐ theorist is interested by books and theories more than by surrounding people. Teacher ‐ theorist flying mentally in the space of their ideas and teacher ‐ theorist doesn't see completely that happens at him near by, teacher ‐ theorist is too absent-minded person. Teacher ‐ theorist has excelent house library often, and the books are his best friends. Most serious problems with discipline appear at teacher ‐ theorist in the secondary school in comparison with other personality types of teachers, but these problems disappear at work of teacher ‐ theorist in university, where students appreciate originality and the usefulness of information more than the degree of contactability and leader’s qualities. The qualification level of secondary school isn't sufficient level for teacher-theorist. Teacher - theorist attempts to compose the tyrannical code of ethics on the lesson for the pupils, where the corresponding punishments are prescribed for the talks on outside themes, tardiness on the lesson or roughness in relation of teacher, but little benefit exists from this code. Only teacher - theorist is capable to conduct fundamental scientific research. Teacher ‐ theorist doesn't communicate with colleagues almost. Teacher ‐ theorist passes to teaching on the new textbooks easily, because teacher ‐ theorist loves novelty and originality of ideas. Teacher ‐ theorist prefers extremes in the grading ‐ either excellent grades or unsatisfactory grades. Teacher ‐ theorist has own original point of view on any question. Teacher ‐ theorist possesses by encyclopedic knowledge on his subject. His thinking is characterized by paradoxical. His lectures have clear structure, his lectures are divided into the separate points: striking example, biography of thinker, laconic definition, problem, conclusion, classification. Therefore pupil are capable to learn and to remember his lectures easily.
Style of writing of the textbook
[edit | edit source]Each personality type has own style of compositions, own style of writing of the textbook. For example, the style of the compositions of author - psychologist is sublime, poetic and figurative. Teacher - psychologist uses many myths and descriptions of his own internal experiences, pathos and religious figment in the text his textbook. A similar text resembles chaotic stream of consciousness and this text has too large a volume. This style is completely suitable for statement of history for the children, but this style is unsuitable for the statement of social sciences. The absence of accuracy and the absence of laconism is shortcomings in the style of the compositions of author - psychologist.
The style of compositions of author - technician is boring, striking examples don't exist in his textbook, but too many figures and dates exist in his textbook. His textbook is written according to the principle: "If it is more incomprehensible, then it looks as wiser". Just such textbooks on the social sciences are unfit for the teaching completely.
The style of the compositions of author - speaker is popular and superficial. A shortcoming of this style is the absence of serious information and inability to state the essence of subject. Pupil finds out after reading such textbook that this pupil learned nothing essentially new. Author - speaker writes textbook according to the principle: "It is necessary to cut quotes from someone else's books and it is necessary to insert quotes into the text of own textbook". Style of the author - speaker is suitable for a statement of history and it isn't suitable for statement of a social science completely.
Style of author - theorist is very logical and laconic, teacher - theorist seeks to classify all information. Author - theorist is the generator of the original ideas. Such style is the best for the author of the textbook.
The choice by the teacher of a subject and social science for scientific creativity
[edit | edit source]The different personality types choose different social sciences for the scientific work and for the teaching. Teacher - psychologist chooses cultural studies, ethics, aesthetics, psychology or religious studies. Teacher - technician chooses empirical research in sociology (microsociology). Teacher - speaker chooses the history or economics. Teacher - theorist chooses logic or macrosociology.
Examples of philosopher ‐ psychologists is Socrates, Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx.
Philosopher ‐ technicians is Immanuel Kant and John Locke.
Philosopher ‐ speakers is Erasmus, Francis Bacon, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin.
Philosopher ‐ theorists is Aristotle, René Descartes, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Auguste Comte and Bertrand Russell.
The different personality types choose for the teaching different subjects in Secondary school. Teacher - psychologist chooses music, art, dance, drama, religious education and literature. Teacher - technician chooses chemistry, biology, physics, technical drawing, information and communication technology, animal husbandry, woodwork, design technology and food technology. Teacher - speaker chooses health and hygiene, Ancient Greek, history, the Russian language, foreign language, geography, commerce and home economics. Teacher - theorist chooses mathematics, sociology and social science.
Teacher - psychologist chooses in university the teaching of art criticism, painting, sculpture and so on. Teacher - technician chooses the teaching of technical sciences ‐ electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and so on. Teacher - speaker chooses the teaching of economic sciences ‐ economics, management and so on. Teacher - theorist chooses further mathematics or philosophical sciences.
Style of training of different personality types of pupils
[edit | edit source]The benefit exists from the skill of teacher to determine the personality type of pupils. This benefit consists of the following:
- First of all, teacher can see in advance the potential instigators of the failure of lesson. This potential instigators of the failure of lesson are speakers. Teacher has the possibility to apply preventive measures to this potential instigators of the failure of lesson. For example, teacher can send this potential instigators to the first desks and to place this potential instigators under own strengthened visual supervision, or to give separate written task to this potential instigators at the beginning of lesson that to neutralize their energy.
- Secondly, teacher can know the preferred or avoided forms of interrogation for each personality type and teacher can change this forms for each pupil individually. For example, pupil - psychologist prefers to answer orally about questions of culture. Pupil - technician prefers the testing in the written form about the dates and the definitions. Pupil - technician prefer to answer on questions of homework only in the form the short answers to questions. Pupil - technician is "swot". Pupil - technician has undeveloped oral speech. Pupil - speaker prefers oral answer at the board in the form of the retelling of the yesterday's lecture of teacher. Pupil - speaker has good hearing memory, although pupil-speaker don't like to write the abstract and to perform homework. Pupil - theorist is afraid to speak before pupils at a board panically. Pupil - theorist prefer conduct analytical work ‐ to set the task, to draw conclusions, to find a mistake in reasonings, to make classification.
- Thirdly, teacher can know in advance the state of the precis of pupil. Pupil - technician has the best precis, his precis has maximum volume and excellent handwriting. The pupil - technician tries to write the precis verbatim because pupil-technician is able to select the main contents in a lecture badly. The precis can be absent at the pupil-speaker in general or the volume of this precis is minimum, therefore only speaker can submit on check someone else's precis instead of own precis. Precis can be in satisfactory condition at pupil - psychologist and at pupil - theorist, handwriting of pupil - theorist is bad. Teacher can find in the precis of the pupil - psychologist many drawings on outside themes, for example, many drawings of cats, dogs and portraits of this teacher can be in precis of pupil - psychologist.
- Fourthly, teacher can foresee the degree of an interest of each personality type in each school subject or to each topics of social sciences. For example, pupil - psychologist prefers to study such topic as “religion”. Pupil - technician prefers to study such topic as “the methods of empirical sociology”. Pupil - speaker prefers to study such topic, as “small groups”. Pupil - speaker is interested in own status in small group very much, and pupil - speaker is proud by experimental confirmation of his leader status in small group very much. Pupil - theorist prefers to study such topics as “formal logic” or “academic sociology”.
Each personality type has own inclinations in the training. This inclinations are as follows:
- Pupil - psychologist tries to beg the good grades at teacher and pupil - psychologist tries to be humiliated before teacher. Pupil - psychologist tries to establish good personal relations with the teacher. Pupil - psychologist tries to use subtle flattery. Pupil - psychologist tries to study and to use human weaknesses of teacher. But teacher should remember that just pupil - psychologist is capable to write denunciation in higher instances on this teacher. Pupil - psychologist has a inclination to visit the theatrical circles. Pupil - psychologist has a inclination toward high sexuality and too early sex, therefore boys begin “to flirt” with the girl ‐ psychologist in school already. Pupil - psychologist has the peculiar style of answer before blackboard, pupil-psychologist is capable “to mill the wind”. Thus, the pupil - psychologist has well developed speech and a certain deficiency of common sense.
- Pupil - technician has great inclination toward the laboratory works. His technical drawings have high quality. Pupil - technician manifests own "clever fingers" on lesson of technology. A car is main hobby of pupil - technician. Pupil - technician does not love creative tasks and pupil - technician prefers routine. Pupil - technician participates in the failure of lesson never. Thus, the pupil - technician deserves encouragement for diligence and good behavior.
- Pupil - speaker does not know how to keep silent entire lesson. To keep silent entire lesson is real torture for pupil - speaker, therefore pupil - speaker begins to talk with the neighbor on the desk on the outside themes, thus pupil - speaker begins to prevent to teacher. Many pupils - speakers (46%) exist in the class in Ural, therefore the first desks in the classroom remind cages with the trained tigers in the circus often, from where speakers ‐ tigers watch fixedly for actions of "trainer" (teacher) and speakers ‐ tigers catch each mistake of teacher, for example, one of the teacher's mistakes is to turn your back on speakers. It isn't necessary to do concessions at punishment of the pupil - speaker, because pupil-speaker understand any concession as weakness. The relations of teacher with the speakers represent the relations of the conflict, which then fades, then ignites with renewed force. It is necessary to punish of pupil - speaker periodically. Pupil - speaker is the born nonformal leader, therefore pupil - speaker searches for any possibility to show to teacher, as formal leader, the degree of influence of this pupil - speaker on school class. The successful failure of lesson means that the influence of nonformal leader is more than the influence of formal leader (teacher). Speaker ‐ organizer of failure of lesson tries to hide behind the back of executors and speaker ‐ organizer of failure of lesson tries to hide own role at the failure of lesson that to avoid of punishment. To reveal this instigator of the failure of lesson is possible with help of sociometry and visual test on personality type. It is possible to reveal the composition of small groups and persons of leaders with help of the sociometry. Attentive visual observation indicates those groups, which took active participation in the process of failure the lesson. If ordinary members of small group took active participation in process of failure of lesson, that it is possible to assume that ordinary members have received such task from the leader and ordinary members performed this task obediently. Therefore it is necessary to punish not only ordinary performers, but also it is necessary to punish of leader of this revolting group. Pupil - speaker remembers information on the social sciences easily and pupil - speaker is guided in the studied information easily. Pupil - speaker is capable to answer on simple question easily. Pupil - speaker is capable to repeat the point of view of teacher easily. Pupil - speaker possesses by good common sense and pupil - speaker possesses by excellently developed oral speech. Pupil - speaker is not inclined to deviate from the topic in contrast with pupil-psychologist.
- Pupil - theorist has a inclination toward the study of such abstract subjects as mathematics, social sciences, philosophy, sociology, politology. Pupil - theorist gives preference to the study of those sciences, in which the procedure of a logical conclusion is applied, for example, theorems are output from axioms with help of logical conclusion in geometry. Pupil - theorist doesn't love descriptive sciences and the study of languages. Pupil - theorist changes the objects of its special interest sometimes after that pupil - theorist has understood the main content of this science. Pupil - theorist doesn't interest fine details and applied researches in contrast to pupil - technician. The hobby of pupil - theorist is chess. Pupil - theorist has very bad handwriting, his public speech is very logical, but this speech has no gloss. Such speech is perceived by listeners as too laconic. Pupil - theorist feels panic fear before public speech. It is possible to find big knowledge in answer of pupil - theorist, but pupil - theorist isn't able to give this big knowledge to public. Pupil - theorist is subject to ridicule from the superior forces of speakers often. These conditions of constant pressure from the side of pupils - speakers bring up strong and persistent character at pupil - theorist. Pupil - theorist take part in the failure of lessons never. Pupil - theorist is capable to notice and to indicate on a mistake in the teacher's words, that causes a certain irritation from the side of this teacher sometimes, this teacher begins to suspect, that this pupil - theorist knows more than this teacher.
Each personality type has own inclination toward reading of the books on different themes:
- Pupil - psychologist prefers to read love stories or fantasy.
- Pupil - technician prefers to read culinary recipes, medical or technical literature like repair of TV set or repair of car.
- Pupil - speaker prefers to read entertaining literature, like the detectives or news about high society.
- Pupil - theorist prefers to read scientific literature for for profound studying of a subject to which pupil-theorist has a interest.
Each personality type has own style of the memorization of foreign words and own type of memory:
- Pupil - psychologist has a figurative memory on foreign words.
- The speaker has inclination to learn foreign languages in the course of direct communication with carriers of this language with help of immersion on language environment, for example in the international camp.
- The technician has visual memory therefore technician learns foreign words by means of repeated recording on paper of these words.
- Pupil - theorist has logical memory; therefore it is necessery for pupil-theorist to construct the semantic chains in the process of learning of foreign words. Pupil - theorist tries to think up and insert such Russian word between the foreign word and its Russian translation, which is close to the foreign word in the sounding, and which is close in the sense to the Russian word, for example, english word "admire" ‐ “admiral” ‐ means russian word "восхищаться", "dissolve" ‐ “salt” ‐ means "растворяться".
Different the personality types prefer to do different kind of sports in lesson of physical education:
- Pupil - speaker prefers the command kinds of sport ‐ basketball, football, volleyball and so on, where a possibility exists of wide communication.
- Pupil - theorist prefers such kinds of the sport, where pupil-theorist is possible to avoid broad communication with the surrounding people. Pupil - theorist prefers to play sports with use of sports equipment. Pupil - theorist prefers chess, olympic weightlifting, track and field athletics.
- Pupil - technician prefers the technical kindss of sport - shooting sport and motorcycle racing.
- Pupil - psychologist prefers kinds of sport, which require the development of artistic abilities ‐ figure skating and artistic gymnastics.
Each personality type has own degree of aspiration toward obtaining of knowledge:
- Pupils - speakers have lowest degree of aspiration toward obtaining of knowledge, therefore just pupils-speakers are the organizers of the failure of lessons and instigators of the conflicts with the teacher. Just students - speakers throw studies in the educational institutions voluntarily or students - speakers are expelled as a result academic debts more often than other personality types. Students - speakers obtained the possibility to obtain satisfactory estimations in the exchange for the payment of educational services or with help of the bribe under the contemporary conditions for paid education in Russia. Just students - speakers were capable to buy false diploma about the education. Students - speakers learn not for the sake of aspiration to knowledge, but for the sake of good grades and for obtaining of the diploma, which must give to students - speakers desired chance to hold a senior position. The style of training of pupils - speakers is writing off a сheat sheet or writing off the neighbor and other forms of fraud in the training, pupils - speakers reach large perfection in this skill. Just pupil - speaker knows how to exploit his friends, whom pupil - speaker forces to give him help at the fulfillment of course works and diploma works. Teacher must consider this inclination of pupil - speaker and teacher must keep of pupil-speaker under strengthened visual control, especially during the examination or the tests. Just pupil - speakers don't love to learn.
- Pupil - theorists, who learn with all the heart, who manifest the highest degree of aspiration toward the knowledge. Obtaining knowledge is one of the main vital needs of pupil-theorist, for the satisfaction to whom pupil - theorist is ready to overcome any obstacles. For example, theorists Mikhail Lomonosov and Ivan Pavlov arrived into St. Petersburg on foot, after overcoming way into hundreds of kilometers that to enter into the university. Theorist Pitirim Sorokin has passed half of road to St. Petersburg in the train as "hare" because of the absence of money on the ticket, Pitirim Sorokin washed toilets by agreement with the train conductor, Pitirim Sorokin intended to enter into the university in St. Petersburg. Many theorists became by titans of science. Pupil - theorist does not try to attain outstanding grades on all subjects, so pupil - theorist learns not for the sake of good grades. Pupil - theorist expends all his efforts on the profound study of the separate subjects, which generated his scientific interest, and pupil - theorist has satisfactory or good grades on the remaining subjects. Thus, the style of the training of pupil - theorist is the profound study of subject.
- Pupil - technician and psychologist have the average degree of aspiration toward the knowledge. Pupil - technician learns for the sake of good grades and for the sake of obtaining of the applied knowledge, useful in the real life. Style of training of pupil - technician is daily cramming of training information.
- The style of the training of pupil - psychologist is the begging of good grades at the teacher.
It is possible to improve a little abilities of pupil in the process of training, but born inclinations of pupil set the specific limitations on the results of his training, expressed in the grades. Otherwise all pupils could learn on excellent grades only. Any teacher knows about existence of these limitations according to his own experience. The task of teacher consists from the skill to discover and to develop the natural inclinations of pupil. It is impossible to turn of the mediocre pupil into the scientific genius like Charles Darwin or Aristotle.
Conclusion consists that the pupil-theorist is most suitable for training, and pupil-speaker brings the maximum quantity of problems for the teacher in the course of training.
Citations and references.
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Sociology Made Simple by Jane L. Thompson, Judith Priestley Butterworth-Heinemann 1996. 6. Education.