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Abstrakt

The basic objective of the paper is to turn our attention to the person of the teacher-educator of a class, i.e. to the image the secondary school pupils have.

The first part of the paper depicts, on the basis of literature, the inner and outer conditions present in the process of forming the image of the other person. Within the inner factors we find emotional attitudes, expectations and self-image of the perceiving person. Within the outer factors one should list physical attributes, conduct and the social roles played by the perceived persons.

The second part analyzes the image of teacher-educator, on the basis of the research in five categories, i.e. intellectual level, general traits of character, attitudes towards pupils and towards other people, as well as philosophy of life. The research concerned those adolescents who go to social and public schools, distinguishing two groups: diligent pupils (30 persons) and dilatory pupils (30 persons). On the basis of the findings one can deduce that pupils’ „diligence” influences the formation of the image of teacher-educator in pupils. And thus the diligent pupils in all categories bear a more positive image of the educator than the dilatory pupils. One should empha size that the pupils from social schools evaluate their class educators in a more positive way (though not in all categories) than the pupils from public schools. The findings of the empirical research permit also to deduce what traits of the teacher-educator image pupils most often appreciate. They are the following: the educator’s intellectual level, his positive attitude towards pupils, the traits of his character, his attitude towards other people and his philosophy of life.