Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Teaching in the Classroom: A Video-Based Case Study
This study explored teachers’ autonomy-supportive and controlling behaviors through video-taped observation in the classroom. Four lessons by two teachers from a secondary school in Finland were videotaped and analyzed using a rigorous coding protocol. It was found that teachers employed b...
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| author | Jingwen Jiang Marja Vauras Simone Volet Anne-Elina Salo Anu Kajamies |
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| description | This study explored teachers’ autonomy-supportive and controlling behaviors through video-taped observation in the classroom. Four lessons by two teachers from a secondary school in Finland were videotaped and analyzed using a rigorous coding protocol. It was found that teachers employed both autonomy-supportive and controlling teaching during the same lesson, and even combined them in the same instructional sequence. This finding suggests the complexity of the use of autonomy support and control in the classroom, as well as their context-dependent aspects. The novel finding from this study was that teachers showed error tolerance and creativity to support students’ autonomy. Showing error tolerance and teaching creatively have not been investigated from the perspective of autonomy support in previous research. Furthermore, this study suggested that indirect control and its negative effects on students’ learning and well-being should arouse more concern in future research. Implications for teaching practice concerning supporting students’ autonomy have been provided. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ca9f3921fe93483cbd47de0bbecd9bf72022-12-22T04:01:09ZengMDPI AGEducation Sciences2227-71022019-08-019322910.3390/educsci9030229educsci9030229Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Teaching in the Classroom: A Video-Based Case StudyJingwen Jiang0Marja Vauras1Simone Volet2Anne-Elina Salo3Anu Kajamies4Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku, Assistentinkatu 5, 20014 Turku, FinlandDepartment of Teacher Education, University of Turku, Assistentinkatu 5, 20014 Turku, FinlandDepartment of Teacher Education, University of Turku, Assistentinkatu 5, 20014 Turku, FinlandDepartment of Teacher Education, University of Turku, Assistentinkatu 5, 20014 Turku, FinlandDepartment of Teacher Education, University of Turku, Assistentinkatu 5, 20014 Turku, FinlandThis study explored teachers’ autonomy-supportive and controlling behaviors through video-taped observation in the classroom. Four lessons by two teachers from a secondary school in Finland were videotaped and analyzed using a rigorous coding protocol. It was found that teachers employed both autonomy-supportive and controlling teaching during the same lesson, and even combined them in the same instructional sequence. This finding suggests the complexity of the use of autonomy support and control in the classroom, as well as their context-dependent aspects. The novel finding from this study was that teachers showed error tolerance and creativity to support students’ autonomy. Showing error tolerance and teaching creatively have not been investigated from the perspective of autonomy support in previous research. Furthermore, this study suggested that indirect control and its negative effects on students’ learning and well-being should arouse more concern in future research. Implications for teaching practice concerning supporting students’ autonomy have been provided.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/9/3/229autonomy supportcontrolling teachingerror tolerancecreativity |
| spellingShingle | Jingwen Jiang Marja Vauras Simone Volet Anne-Elina Salo Anu Kajamies Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Teaching in the Classroom: A Video-Based Case Study Education Sciences autonomy support controlling teaching error tolerance creativity |
| title | Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Teaching in the Classroom: A Video-Based Case Study |
| title_full | Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Teaching in the Classroom: A Video-Based Case Study |
| title_fullStr | Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Teaching in the Classroom: A Video-Based Case Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Teaching in the Classroom: A Video-Based Case Study |
| title_short | Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Teaching in the Classroom: A Video-Based Case Study |
| title_sort | autonomy supportive and controlling teaching in the classroom a video based case study |
| topic | autonomy support controlling teaching error tolerance creativity |
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