What social roles do teachers assume

Roles are categories of certain types of characters and professional divisions in life. The definition of teacher roles helps teachers to position themselves accurately and maximize their profession. The integration of modern society is based on a broad social division of labor, teachers are a kind of professionals with the development of society, talk about the role of the teacher can not be separated from the concept of society, to discuss the teacher's role is given by whom, and ultimately point to what.

Traditional Role of Teachers

Han Yu's "preaching, teaching, and solving puzzles" is the earliest definition of the role of teachers in China, spreading the truth, teaching academics, and solving the problems of the teacher's professional role is defined.

The traditional roles of teachers can include: disseminator of knowledge, manager of students, nurturer of students' minds, and organizer of teaching activities, etc. It can be seen that the roles of teachers are related to teaching activities. The shaping of teacher's role can not completely leave the attributes of the natural man, leaving the attributes of the natural man, the teacher's role will be biased towards instrumental rationality, thus losing the humanistic nature of the teaching profession. In the teaching process the teacher is a representative of society, is entrusted by society to teach, rather than simply follow the wishes of students or parents, and the ultimate point is to make the students in the direction of conformity with the requirements of society.

The classification of teachers' roles

Some scholars divide teachers' roles into formal roles and informal roles. Teachers' formal roles refer to the roles that are related to the completion of classroom teaching tasks and clearly defined, while teachers' informal roles refer to the roles that are generated in the course of teaching and the completion of classroom teaching tasks not directly related to the role of the role of the teacher is not clearly defined. Teachers' formal roles include: the motivator of learning, the instructor of learning resources, the organizer of the teaching process, the evaluator of classroom behavior and student results, etc.; Teachers' informal roles: the distributor of educational knowledge, the controller of student interactions, the creator of the classroom atmosphere, the poster of social labels, and the coordinator of interpersonal relationships.

The teacher's role can also be divided into explicit and implicit roles, explicit roles refer to the roles directly related to classroom teaching, including the organizer of teaching activities, student learning evaluator, student learning guide, etc.; implicit roles refer to the hidden, difficult to express, non-prescriptive roles in the process of classroom teaching, including the guide to the values of the students, the posters of social labels. The implicit roles refer to the hidden, difficult to express, non-prescriptive roles in the classroom teaching process, including the guide of students' values, the social labeler, etc.

The teacher's role expectations

The teacher's role expectations can be divided into the role expectations of the society, the role expectations of the students and the role expectations of the teacher. Teachers' role expectations are influenced by the social pattern, and the discussion of teachers' roles must conform to the social structure, thus becoming more complex.

While teachers assume traditional teaching roles, the network of relationships constructed by individuals, families, and social relations is closely connected, and teachers are only a part of the social division of labor system, and like other members of the society, they need each other functionally, and teachers are rewarded for their labor, and the pursuit of utilitarianism, social relations, and morality and spirit of the process may clash with each other, giving rise to the teacher's role dilemma . Therefore, the role expectations of teachers should become a kind of expectations and requirements for teachers' professional qualities, such as education reformer, spiritual mentor of students.

Four, Social Role of Teachers

Sociologist V. Znaniecki sees social role as a dynamic social system consisting of four elements: social circle, actor's self, actor's social status, and actor's social function.

1. The teacher's role as an intellectual is relatively homogeneous if the teacher is defined simply as an intellectual. Teachers' social role is multi-subjective in nature. In terms of the nature, function and scope of the profession they are engaged in, teachers appear as professional intellectuals while also appearing as public **** intellectuals; in terms of their work and living space, they work within the educational field as well as moving outside the educational field. As a part of the intellectual camp, teachers have their own social circle, and their social circle is constantly changing and adjusting.

2. Teachers' self-role definition. In the traditional concept, teachers believe that their job is to teach, which narrows their social role. From the perspective of sociology of knowledge, teachers are knowledge people, and the pursuit of specialization can promote the improvement of teachers' professionalism, and the positioning of self-role is very important in the process of teachers' specialization. Teachers' educational practice work should position themselves as implementers of educational activities, participants and researchers, promoters of social development, etc. They should use their academic knowledge, wisdom, research ability and various authorities to study the psychological development of students, reflect on their own teaching activities, actively participate in educational public ****activities, pay attention to the hot issues of education, and enthusiastically devote themselves to educational reforms, etc., so as to liberate the teacher from the role of a single knowledge liberate teachers from the role of single knowledge disseminator, and really improve their sense of professional achievement in education.

3. Social status of teachers. A person who is needed by a certain circle also needs the circle to give him certain rights and status. The criteria for recognizing and evaluating social status should be pluralistic, including factors such as working environment, social prestige, social authority, cultural status, salary and benefits. Teachers as the spokesperson of society, the role is always a reflection of the social background, interaction, organizational form, and cultural factors of a specific period of time, with distinctive characteristics of the times, teachers appear as the spokesperson of society, the society has given teachers a social status, and at the same time, it also puts forward high requirements for teachers. Teachers appear first as human beings and second as spokesmen of society, and their pursuit of social value and personal value is unified, first of all, to ensure the social status of teachers in order to give full play to their social functions.

4. The social function of teachers. The social function of teachers is to teach and educate people, to cultivate people who meet the needs of social development through educational activities. Today, talent, science and technology, and innovation have become the main supporting force for social development, and the value of teachers increasingly has the significance of social function. The cultivation and inheritance of the humanistic spirit also cannot be separated from teachers, whose words and teachings provide strong spiritual support for the shaping of students' humanistic spirit and ideal personality. Teachers do not represent themselves in the educational process, but represent society to educate students, the role of teachers is given by society, and in accordance with the requirements of society to educate students.

Fifth, the development trend of teachers' social roles

There should be two trends in the study of teachers' specific roles, one is to the macro development, the study of the overall development of teachers' roles in the direction of the other trend is to the micro development, the study of specific disciplines, specific subjects in the context of the specific roles of teachers.

The author believes that teachers can be both professional intellectuals and public **** intellectuals, which in itself is not a contradiction, can not put the professionalization of teachers in opposition to the public ****, the teacher's role should be positioned as a role person. Under the requirements of the professional development of teachers, the role of teachers will move from monism to pluralism, from regulation to creation, through the definition and creation of their own roles, the role of teachers will move towards the unity of personal value and social value.

The teacher's role is an open concept, a concept that is constantly developing and changing. The discussion of teachers' social roles is of great significance to both teachers and society. First of all, teachers with a clear concept of role can make their self-role expectations consistent with their role expectations of others, treat students objectively, understand them, go deeper into their hearts, and produce empathy. Secondly, teachers who are good at playing roles are able to treat people with sincerity, have effective interactions with students, and achieve efficient educational effects. In addition, a clear teacher's role will help teachers to accurately position themselves and adjust their roles in time, so that they can be more comfortable in carrying out their teaching work and fulfill their social functions.