Cyberbullying of teachers by students on YouTube: challenging the image
of teacher authority in the digital age.Research Papers in Education, 31 (3), 255 - 273.
Title: Cyberbullying of teachers by students on YouTube: challenging the image of
teacher authority in the digital age
-- can seem like a challenge to
teacher authority.
Four characteristics were inherent in learning communities that worked to promote positive changes in teaching cultures: collaboration, a focus on student learning,
teacher authority, and continual teacher learning.
The Chinese are well aware that abuse of
teacher authority is a problem, and every year a handful of outrageous cases generates a public firestorm.
Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and
teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.
Teacher authority and suppression of individual expression are deeply rooted in Confucian and collectivistic cultures (Ho, 2001).