THE PERSONALITY OF A UNIVERSITY (LANGUAGE) TEACHER: A SURVEY-BASED STUDY

The study represents the outcome of the first phase of an on-going research which was conducted within the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies of the Czech Technical University in Prague. The presented pilot study focused on perceived differences between university teachers of the so called " core curriculum subjects" and university language teachers. By examining the differences between these two categories of university teachers, the project focuses on a broadly defined phenomenon of the personality of university teachers, in particular on the extent into which university teachers, understood as unique independent personalities, should influence the content of their educational activities by introducing their own, subjectively selected themes, topics, and/or opinions that are not directly related to the prescribed subject matter into the educative process.