Author(s)

Jie Du ¹, Jinjin Niu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Faculty of Education, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, China

Corresponding Author

Jie Du

ABSTRACT

The change of preschool teachers' authority has always been influenced by different perspectives on the purpose of education, that is, the value orientation factors of social standard and child standard. At the same time, there are some long-term disputes caused by the reality gap between the internal professional level of preschool teachers and the external society's expectations of them. "Reduction theory" and the "reinforcement theory" point out different aspects of the problem from different perspectives. The research depth caused by the debate is beneficial to the revision and development of theory and practice.

KEYWORDS

Teacher authority, preschool teachers, child development

CITE THIS PAPER

Jie Du, Jinjin Niu, A Review of the Evolution of Preschool Teacher Authority. Applied & Educational Psychology (2024) Vol. 5: 92-98. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2024.050312.

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