Adaptive Structuration Theory

In college, or any school setting for that matter, every class we attend has different sets of rules. Each class has it own unique type of communication. Each student knows the basic rules for each class he or she attends. Each student comes to class with the knowledge they were told to retain by reading the required material the night before. The teacher also brings his or her knowledge with them to teach the class —knowledge they learned while students themselves. A couple of days ago, I found out about a class that had little structure to it. The teacher relied on the students to make the class productive by bringing a new topic to class with them each day. Each student adapted to this method until one day a student asked the teacher “What if no body came to class with new topics. What would you do?” By him asking that question, it gave the class additional insight about the class. This was all about decision-making, and it would be the student’s choice not to interact with the teacher. Without the students communicating and bringing in new things to talk about, the class wouldn’t have had any stability and teacher would have had to change the class structure. It obvious that this type of setting is not good for all students and the teacher would have had to have had a back up way of learning. Hopefully the teacher realized that while it may have been nice to not have to come up with any lesson plans, it can come back to bite you in the butt, and maybe even cause the students to leave the class with nothing learned.