Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

French and Raven's Power Bases: A Focus for Educational Researchers and Practitioners

French and Raven's Power Bases: A Focus for Educational Researchers and Practitioners The paper argues that the effective use of power, a little-investigated concept, is crucial to providing leadership in educational settings. It then presents French and Raven's social bases of power—coercive, reward, legitimate, referent, and expert—and builds a case for power being a focus for both educational researchers and practitioners. The former, researchers, are encouraged to look upon power, its definition, its categories, its enhancement, and its application as untilled soil ripe with opportunities for investigation. The latter, practitioners, are asked to come to grips with the potential and limits of each power base in order more effectively to exercise such power in the classroom. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

French and Raven's Power Bases: A Focus for Educational Researchers and Practitioners

Australian Journal of Education , Volume 30 (3): 10 – Nov 1, 1986

Loading next page...
 
/lp/sage/french-and-raven-s-power-bases-a-focus-for-educational-researchers-and-K2QA1fs0f0

References (16)

Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 1986 Australian Council for Educational Research
ISSN
0004-9441
eISSN
2050-5884
DOI
10.1177/000494418603000304
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

The paper argues that the effective use of power, a little-investigated concept, is crucial to providing leadership in educational settings. It then presents French and Raven's social bases of power—coercive, reward, legitimate, referent, and expert—and builds a case for power being a focus for both educational researchers and practitioners. The former, researchers, are encouraged to look upon power, its definition, its categories, its enhancement, and its application as untilled soil ripe with opportunities for investigation. The latter, practitioners, are asked to come to grips with the potential and limits of each power base in order more effectively to exercise such power in the classroom.

Journal

Australian Journal of EducationSAGE

Published: Nov 1, 1986

There are no references for this article.