Etos zawodu nauczyciela z perspektywy studentów uczelni pedagogicznych i niepedagogicznych

The effects of a teacher’s work depend not only on his/her qualifications and professional skills, but also on his/her personality traits and life attitude. All these components are important in the teaching and educational work, and at the same time they make up the ethos of the teaching profession. Contemporary conditions of the functioning of Polish education, the pace and scope of transformations taking place, and finally the often signaled crisis of the educational impact of the school are arguments proving the need to rebuild the ethos, which requires its proper interpretation, especially in academic milieu. The article is a research report, the subject of which is the teacher’s professional ethos.