Role nauczyciela a opresyjność wobec uczniów
The Roles of a Teacher and Oppressiveness Towards Students

Summary/Abstract: Pupils spend a large part of their lives at school, where most of their time is filled by teachers. The quality of this time depends also on the teachers’ approach to educational issues, their sense of agency, responsibility and commitment. In conducting a phenomenographic study of teachers’ epistemological beliefs, I asked teachers questions not only about issues directly related to epistemology, but also about how they perceived their role and what impact they saw as having on students’ learning process. The collected answers revealed varied teacher profiles, which I grouped into 8 distinct conceptions of teacher’s roles, out of which I selected 4 categories in which different forms of oppression were manifested. The described roles, or rather the activities which those roles manifest in, enable us to understand the context of oppressiveness. The main sources of potential oppressiveness seems to lie in teachers’ different attitudes to basic educational concepts, including, above all, the transfer of knowledge and their entanglement in the educational system, i.e. their sense of the system’s influence on the performance of their work performance.

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