Identificação das características do bom professor sob a ótica de alunos de distintas áreas do conhecimento

Abstract

Education is an essential part of everyone's life and the teaching-learning relationship between a teacher and his students is an important vector by which it can be transmitted, and when the goals and thoughts of both are aligned, the relationship becomes makes it more efficient. Given the above, the objective of this research is to define which characteristics the undergraduate students from different areas of knowledge consider relevant to define the good professor. For this purpose, a questionnaire was used that presented 59 characteristics divided into the Human Dimension, Technical Dimension and Ideological Dimension (or Politics), which were judged by the level of relevance by 198 undergraduate students from courses in different areas at the Federal University of Uberlândia. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the Chi-square test. In general, it was noted that the characteristics belonging to the Technical Dimension were considered slightly more relevant. Some of the characteristics pointed out as the most important were: “recognizing and accepting mistakes”, “being accessible to dialogues”, “having mastery of the content”, “being analytical, critical and reflective”, “being interested” and “having involvement and commitment teaching”. As for the association of the responses with the characteristics of the respondents, it was not possible to find significant differences between them. This implies that the opinion of students in general is convergent and does not depend on gender, period of graduation, area of the course or whether they work or not.