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Running Head: MERITOCRACY 1
MERITOCRACY 4
Meritocracy
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What is Meritocracy?
Meritocracy is defined as a social system in which the society’s advancement is based on a person’s merits and capabilities rather than on the basis of social, wealth, or family background. To advance in this system, a person’s performance is measured via examination or by demonstrated achievements. In his book, Gorski refers to meritocracy as ‘’people achieving based on effort’’ (Gorski, 2017).
Describe the problem with merit pay for teachers
Many scholars argue that merit pay is definitely a bad idea that won’t die soon. They claim that the concept is subjective and that it isn’t an effective parameter for assessing a teacher’s performance. The problem with merit pay is that it pits educators against each other in a competitive scheme to personally gain on the leaner’s backs. It encourages educators to see kids not as individual kids of worth regardless of their academic abilities but as test core suppressors and increasers (Watts, 2013). Merit pay is also insulting as it assumes that educators could do better but refuse to do so until it is bribed out of them.
If you believe in meritocracy, where does the problem lie when a student receives poor grades? What are the dangers of this belief?
Teachers who believe in meritocracy assume that children’s success only depends on hard work and will and that individuals should be rewarded on the basis of intellectual ability. Therefore, teachers who are proponents of meritocracy believe that they should be paid based on their students’ performance. This means that if a student receives poor grades, the teacher will receive low pay. This would then lead to miscellaneous acts on the teacher’s side. According to Penrod (2018), in addition to being false, many researchers in neuroscience and psychology suggest that believing in meritocracy makes individuals less self-critical, more selfish, and even more prone to acting in various discriminatory ways.
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Gorski, P. C. (2017). Reaching and teaching students in poverty: Strategies for erasing the opportunity gap. Teachers College Press
Penrod, R. (2018). The Dangers of Meritocracy and Education.
Watts, D. (2013). Merit Pay for Teachers: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? Kappa Delta Pi Record, 21(4), 100-104.
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