Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Their Professional Role in View of Selected Theoretical Concepts

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show the standard of a performing teacher’s role in view of selected concepts of teachers’ functioning in the profession as well as theories of human personality. In order to assess the standard of a performing teacher’s role, Krzysztof Rubacha’s concept was used. In the said concept, the social role of a teacher is spread between two opposites: adaptive (instrumental) and heuristic (autonomous). The obtained results were presented among others in terms of three types of human cognitive rationality: instrumental, practical and emancipatory as well as from the perspective of an autonomous way of being in the world: being an autonomous subject, being in the role, being unreflective and three types of identity: anomic, role identity, and the identity of autonomic “I”. The results were also interpreted in view of Józef Kozielecki’s transgressive concept of human personality. The results of the research show that the majority of teachers present the adaptive standard of functioning in the profession.

Keywords

• nauczyciel
• pełnienie roli nauczyciela
• transgresyjna teoria osobowości człowieka