The concept and importance of trust in the student – teacher relationship: Sociological discourse
The concept and importance of trust in the student – teacher relationship: Sociological discourse

Summary/Abstract: It is crucial for young people to be able to distinguish situations in which they approach trust building as a substantial construct of sociability, which is a prerequisite for their further intellectual, social and cultural development. Education within higher education programs, ie faculties, represents a person’s integration into a different and demanding international space with special standards within professional education, which certainly represents a challenge for an individual in the process of developing new social relations. In this context, the interaction and trust building amongst students and teachers is a key factor for the success of the entire tertiary educational process. Timely, this paper substantively crosslinks the trust, placing it in the research focus as a capital relation in the study process and the most delicate possible relationship amongst students and teachers. The search for answers to this topic required an interdisciplinary approach as well as literature references in the field of sociology, pedagogy, philosophy and communication all of which combine the results of empirical research, which, significantly contributed to an understanding of the trust concept and its importance in student-teacher relationship. It is our hope that this paper or at least some parts of it will become a guideline and a manual for greater awareness of this form of academic experience or process in the student-professor relationship which, like other interpersonal relationships is primarily, or should be, based on trust.

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