- Author:
Janusz Stanek
- Institution:
Academy of Physical Culture, Katowice, Poland
- Year of publication:
2005
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
152-170
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/tner.05.7.3.11
- PDF:
tner/200503/tner711.pdf
In his article, the author outlines the values preferred by teachers and those aspiring to the profession. The presented data point to a very broad convergence between what teachers and students indicated with regard to their attitude towards values. Although one can observe certain, rather subtle, differences (related to, among others, the socio-demographic characteristics of those surveyed), they are of secondary importance and do not cause the axiological bases for the functioning of both groups to differ. What is significant is also the placement of such values as safety, responsibility and children. These values have a static character, connected with necessity and, at the same time, with the need to maintain one’s property. They proved to be slightly more appreciated by teachers than by students. The research shows one essential yet weak correlation: two values, wisdom and honesty, find a slightly wider acknowledgement among teachers than among their future colleagues. The same can be said of the case when the same values are chosen as primary. In this context, referring everything that takes place in the social space to distant, better times seems to be justified. No matter how it was in the real historical dimension, it appears justified to assert that it is undoubtedly better to live in an environment where the majority of those representing a given professional group (especially one as important for the social structure as teachers) recognise the importance of wisdom and honesty.
- Author:
Beata Kosová
- E-mail:
beata.kosova@umb.sk
- Institution:
Matej Bel University, Slovak Republic
- Year of publication:
2006
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
167-182
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/tner.06.10.3.12
- PDF:
tner/200603/tner1012.pdf
The study answers the question whether the teaching profession has the attributes typical of genuine professions. It presents an analysis of the state of fulfilling the requirements of the teaching profession. It focuses especially on the description of the level of teachers’ professional identity in Slovakia. It argues that to be an autonomous subject is the basic requirement of a teacher’s expertise. It gives characteristics of the current understanding of the expertise in the teaching profession and professional knowledge, needed for a teacher’s performance that is based on the cycle of integrating theory and practice and its reflection. It describes two main hindrances to the transition of a teaching career into an expert profession: a) the existing legislative barriers that separate the expertise and the teaching competence; and b) current obstacles in the university teacher training, especially in its curriculum and in the methodology used by university teacher trainers.
- Author:
Dorota Moroń
- Institution:
University of Wrocław
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9242-7305
- Year of publication:
2024
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
67-84
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2024.84.04
- PDF:
apsp/84/apsp8404.pdf
A social worker is a key support profession in the social assistance system, so this profession should be performed by well-educated specialists. The aim of this article is to study the advancement of the process of professionalisation process of the job of a social worker in Poland. The research questions concern the key indicators of professionalisation of the job of a social worker, the course of this professionalisation in Poland and the main barriers to the process. Based on the research carried out, it was shown that, in the case of Poland, the professionalisation of the job of a social worker has reached the level that makes it possible to define a social worker as a ‘profession’. However, full professionalisation has not been reached in terms of all adopted indicators of the analysis; hence the need to support further professionalisation of this profession.