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Teacher Power and Humility: A Potential Interface

Credit: iStock.com/FatCamera
Credit: iStock.com/FatCamera
I sometimes come to column topics in roundabout ways. The way to this one started with a recent study of power in student-formed, leaderless, peer groups. The researchers were interested in exploring the power that group members perceived in one another. They discovered a mediating relationship between power and humility. If group members with power was perceived as humble by the other group members, they performed better as leaders, and their peers gave them even greater power.

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