Question

Chapter 22--- As rule-governed behavior changes to contingency-governed behavior, three outcomes are possible, depending on whether the rules were easy or hard to follow. Name an issue with the education system, the health industry, or a business model, and determine what the contingency breakdown is. Then, determine the performance management contingency that would result in a more effective or optimal outcome.

Answer 1

An issue with the education system: Less importance given to integration of arts into the curriculum.

Nature of contingency breakdown:

Art education imparts a specific set of skills in the student that may not be adequately addressed elsewhere in the curriculum. However, tapping into this aspect has been a source of apprehension for both the government and school authoriries. In a system whose predominant focus is on not doing away with the high-stakes annual tests at any cost, experimentation with the various forms of art have become marginalised and less opted for.

Performance management contingency:

Arts education demonstrates an ability to empower students to create, communicate and collaborate in ways that better prepare them for the world, the workforce and in being global citizens. This can be attained through a three-component model:

Teacher-student relations - This factor addresses the teacher's perception of his/her cooperative and empathetic relations with the students while collaboratively experimenting with arts forms.

Art task structure - This factor relates to whether the structure of the art work task implemented by the student is subject to flexibility, utmost creativity, individual manipulation, and an empathetic as well as objective assessment by the teacher-in-charge.

Position power - This factor asks if the teacher's level of authority is maintained at a level where there is no punishment at any cost; only rewarding and a motivating body language may be encouraged, so that the very essence of ‘engaging in an art form’ is not lost and in such a way that each piece of art produced by the student is considered as a unique one.