THE FASCINATING PROFESSOR. A POINT OF VIEW

Abstract

One of the main objectives of the teaching is to reach those psycho-emotional springs of those who participate in the teaching act able to turn the participants into captives of the discourse, ideas, and relationship that is built in the created teaching context. Fascination is the way, and the professor is in the hypothesis to realize this act. This article presents the results of a study on the qualities that a professor should possess to be fascinating, as it was identified and described following the exploratory approach focused on questionnaire-based research applied to a number of 130 students in the first year from different faculties of the University of Craiova. The final results, obtained through the expert consultation technique, corroborated with the Critical Incident Technique and the Assessment Scale with Behavioral Anchors, were organized in the form of a hierarchical list of qualities of the fascinating professor, a list that allowed to draw current conclusions regarding directions likely to develop professor teaching approaches.

Keywords

• fascination teaching;
• fascinating professor;
• professor teaching.