Teacher-student relationship through the lens of parental authoritative features
Teacher-student relationship through the lens of parental authoritative features

Summary/Abstract: Parents and teachers are part of the micro system that influences the psychological and behavioral development of children. The socialization theory of Baumrind showed that, in general, parental influence is expressed most adequately through an authoritative style, which is characterized by high support and control, as well as autonomy granting. There is evidence that an authoritative parenting style facilitates positive psychological and behavioral development of children. In addition, recent research has shown that features of an authoritative parenting style characterizes some other types of relationships. One is the teacher-student relationship in the formal educational system. In general, the tendency of the public school system was mainly to develop children’s knowledge and skills, and unfortunately, one of the contexts of learning, which is, teacher-student relationship, was mostly overlooked. The hypothesis that the teacher-student relationship resembles the parent-child relationship was formulated and, that is because of the common features of the authoritative style. The purpose of this study is to present a short review of the literature concerning the impact of authoritative features of teachers upon the psycho-behavioral functioning of students, as well as to bring some evidence concerning the similarities between parents’ and teachers’ relationship with children.

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