An Educator Is Disgusted with Teaching Methods That Lead Students

question 36

Multiple Choice

An educator is disgusted with teaching methods that lead students to simply gain a credential rather than actually learn about the world. She decides to start a charter school that employs innovative teaching methods, doesn't give students grades, and encourages creative thinking over rote learning. How would Robert Merton's strain theory of deviance classify this educator?

• A) as an innovator
• B) as a ritualist
• C) as a rebel
• D) as a retreatist

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