The university professor: integration between the personal and professional dimension

• Main Authors: José Javier BERMÚDEZ-APONTE, Francisco Javier LASPALAS PÉREZ
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2017-12-01
• Series: Teoría de la Educación: Revista Interuniversitaria
• Subjects: docente; universidad; identidad; responsabilidad del docente; objetivo educacional
• Online Access: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-3743/article/view/17505

<p>In the first part of this article, the authors explain how the teaching role is affected by certain social and cultural changes, like the knowledge society emergence, the universities orientation towards marketing, the constant demand and pressure exerted on teachers to publish, the loss of the ethical sense in the academic activity and the disparity of tasks that are being assigned to the university professors. In view of the above, a comprehensive model, compound by two concepts –personal and professional– of a university professor is proposed; in fact, this model incorporates and summarises different contributions regarding this theme. Finally, this article aims to defend the need to understand the teaching role as a vocation, in the broadest sense of the word, a vocation carries the inclination to pursue an aim: the education of those students that teachers have in charge.</p>