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ERIC Number: ED615050
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Sep-30
Pages: 13
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In-Service Teacher Entitlement Attitude: A Case Study from the Spanish Context
Hernández, Inmaculada; Mena, Juanjo
Advances in Research on Teaching
While "academic entitlement" focuses on student entitlement and its consequences, there is a need to be aware of the consequences of teachers' entitled feelings arising from their subjective perceptions on student learning. This micro-ethnographically oriented study uses the case of an eleven-year-old fifth-grade student's low academic performance at a Spanish primary school to unravel the notion of excessive teacher entitlement embodied in the social organization of schooling. A qualitative analysis of teachers' perceptions of this student's low performance showed that most of their opinions were subjective, based on their deep-rooted deficit view of students. These beliefs seemed to make teachers feel entitled to blame the student and her background instead of arousing self-reflection leading to self-realization and change in practice. The study points to teacher entitled feelings as a symptom of the wider sociocultural mores that make teachers assume the power to arbitrate without considering students' situated needs. This study draws attention to the need to help teachers become conscious of and analyze self-entitlement to enable them to base their decisions on reason rather than prejudice. [For the complete volume, "Understanding Excessive Teacher and Faculty Entitlement: Digging at the Roots. Advances in Research on Teaching. Volume 38," see ED614992.]
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Spain
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