Quality of the "student-master" relationships in perception and experience of students of Polish universities in the context of a general vision of studying

Abstract

The vision of the university and the lecturer-student relationship in the perceptions and experiences of those surveyed are heterogeneous, showing in many areas a tendency to this ambivalence, resulting probably from an internal contradiction between the expected (ideal conceptions), the general challenges (labor market requirements, economics), and the actually experienced necessity of finding oneself under the hard conditions which reality (mainly economic) present to the students (as well as lecturers). The students (although declaratively) associate the University with exceptional quality of education, particular relationship with the lecturer, and ethics, and even with transgression (positive perspective, because it is that which initiates development). At the same time, the narrow, pragmatic vision of education preparing one mainly for the requirements of the labor market - practical knowledge (negative perspective, because it is restricts the scope of development) limits this. It is a space where there is no room for "student life" and "developing of culture", where experienced emotions are clearly ambivalent, dominated by frustration and stress and accompanying fear (deactivating emotions). This makes university space a place for experiencing clear mental discomfort and negative learning experiences often marked by "student-lecturer" relationship of negative traits, limiting, hostile, or indifferent