GENUINE AND DECLARATIVE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING. PROFESSIONAL OF EDUCATION AS RESEARCHER – VERSUS RESEARCHER AS A PROFESSIONAL
GENUINE AND DECLARATIVE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING. PROFESSIONAL OF EDUCATION AS RESEARCHER – VERSUS RESEARCHER AS A PROFESSIONAL

Summary/Abstract: In the academic world, a kind of Hamlet's type question has become almost obsessive: a scholar/ academic staff should be or should not be more a professional of teaching activity, or more a researcher. The paper presents the coordinates of a long-term and thorny debate about the topic of the balance between teaching and research in the context of academic staff status. This presentation is based, on one side, on the analysis of the different opinions expressed on wide geographical areas of the academic world; on the other side a research about the topic within Romanian context is announced and presented. The methods of collecting opinions were investigation based on questionnaires, focus groups organized and run in different contexts and on different occasions and managed observation on a wider category of teachers, beyond the academic world, in pre-university system. The reason of extended the area of observation is that the manner of the entire teaching staff assessment tends to be focused more and more on the proofs of research and less and less on the teaching performance reflected by the students' performances. A clear distinction between the professor as a researcher and the professional researcher, as a defined status, is argued. The conclusion of this investigation is put into the context of the worldwide opinion on this topic.

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