Schools and Education - Understanding the Rise in Apathy, Cheating and

The Rise in Apathy, Cheating and Plagiarism Understanding the job Over the past ten years teachers have witnessed a drop in bookman preparation and a rise in apathy and jazzing. Students who cheat do so from a variety of motives. Making this situation even more difficult is that faculty members do not even define buccaneering the same or punish it consistently (Howard, Sexuality 473). Some surveys even show that teachers simply ignore the problem or do not calculate plagiarism because they do not want to be bothered, because they think only the student who cheated is actually harmed, or because of the unpleasant bureaucracy and documentation ramifications (Moeck 484). Alschuler and Blimling add to this disceptation the fear of litigation, student reprisals, administrative reprimands and lack of support (124). With such diversity and outright dissention among teachers, finding solutions to these problems will require not only a ordinary purpose but also an understandin g of what may be at the heart of these issues. One potential answer lies in educating ourselves about the history and reputation of plagiarism. Another potential answer lies in analyzing how so many students arrive at college ill-prepared and apathetic. Freires theories on banking education may explain some of these problems concerning student preparation and academic integrity. First, we must understand the history of plagiarism and the problem many instructors have in separating original thinking from collaborative thinking (that which is influenced by those who have come before). Western thought traces its roots to the great civilizations of Classical Greece and Rome. The nature of much writing from this period up into the 19th Century was ... ...n, 1993. 17-24.Howard, Rebecca Moore. Plagiarisms, Authorships, and the pedantic Death Penalty. College English 57 (1995). 788-806.---. Sexuality, Textuality The Cultural get to of Plagiarism. College English 62 (2002). 473-91.Jeffers, Thomas L. Plagiarism juicy and Low. Commentary 114 (2002). 54-61.McCabe, Donald L. Students Cheating in American High Schools. The Center for Academic Integrity. 2002. 10 Nov. 2002. .Moeck, P. G. Academic Dishonesty Cheating Among Community College Students. Community College Journal of Research and Practice 26 (2002). 479-91.Statistics. Plagiarism.org. 10 Nov. 2002. .Roberts, Peter. Education, Literacy, and Humanization Exploring the Work of Paolo Freire. Ed. Henry A. Giroux. Westport, CT Bergin & Garvey, 2002. 54-73.