Teacher and Student Responsibility - Complementary or Contradictory?

• In Event: Poster Session 17
  In Poster Session: Social Influences on Learning

Abstract

The specific nature of responsibilities in schools is far from clear. Previous research has focused specifically on teachers' perceptions of their responsibility. Our research aims at extending this focus to students’ and parents’ perceptions. We developed a responsibility-framework to describe that people can be assigned responsibilities in contexts which they actively engage in. Two studies were conducted to identify responsibilities students’ assign to their teachers and themselves and to test the usability of the responsibility framework to analyze students’ beliefs about their teachers’ and their own responsibility. Results support the responsibility-framework and illustrate how different persons’ responsibilities arise from their contexts of action. Within these, people are assigned specific responsibilities in their shared aim to increase student motivation and learning.

Authors

• Kerstin Helker, RWTH Aachen University

• Marold S. Wosnitza, RWTH Aachen University