What If Milgram Controlled Student Grades? A Simple Game for Teaching the Concept of Authority.

Winston, Fletcher

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ERIC Number: EJ679811

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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What If Milgram Controlled Student Grades? A Simple Game for Teaching the Concept of Authority.

Winston, Fletcher

Teaching Sociology, v31 n2 p221-26 Apr 2003

Focuses on a simulation game to express the power and legitimacy of the teacher authority as a motivator of human behavior in facilitating student learning. States the instructor in this game is an active participant. Concludes the game achieves teacher-student understanding of how authority figures influence others behavior. (KDR)

Descriptors: Educational Games, Educational Strategies, Higher Education, Human Relations, Influences, Learning Processes, Motivation Techniques, Power Structure, Simulation, Sociology, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Teaching Sociology is a peer reviewed journal.