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Nauczyciel akademicki – dylematy, napięcia, ambiwalencja roli
Academic teacher - dilemmas, tensions, role ambivalence

Author(s): Anna Sajdak
Contributor(s): Anna Fitak (Translator)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, School education, Higher Education , Educational Psychology, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: academic teacher; didactician; ambivalence; professional role;

Summary/Abstract: In the article the Author presents a thesis that a significant part of the dilemmas of an academic teacher – didactician are related to experiencing various types of ambivalence and tensions involved in this professional role. She addresses the category of ambivalence, considers its usefulness in the reflection upon the professional role, and presents two major areas in which tensions are experienced. Accordingly, she describes ambivalence as a tension caused by finding oneself in the field of opposing expectations and normative requirements concerning the professional role, established by the employer and finding their manifestation e.g. in the inconsistency of set tasks and the system of evaluation and promotion of an employee, that is, ambivalence inscribed in the triad of being a scientist, didactician and a certain type of manager all at the same time.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 49-65
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish
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