| Abstrakt: |
Kontiainen, S.1974. Authoritarian Attitudes of Supervisors in Relation to the Effects of Supervision as Assessed by Student Teachers. Scand. J. educ. Res. 18, 79‐94. The present study is a continuation of previous analyses of the behaviour of supervisors in school practice context by the author (Kontainen 1973). These studies are part of a wider research project on teacher training in Finland, the Helsinki—Turku Project. In this paper authoritarian attitudes of supervisors are analysed in relation to the effects of supervision on personal development of student teachers as assessed by the student teachers themselves. How authoritarian attitudes are experienced by students teachers is shown in the study to depend essentially on the other characteristics of the behaviour of supervisors combined with these attitudes. The analyses showed, however, that authoritarian attitudes, as defined in the paper, very seldom result in a positive effect of supervision; the effect tends to be negative or at best neutral or moderate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
