Fundamental Pedagogy Jana Doležalová

13.2 The Educator 
The educator is the person exerting educational influence on the child, 
teaching the child something. The educator’s role is to guide and lead the 
educatee towards a certain educational objective (i.e. self-reliance, morality, 
character and will). In these endeavours, the educator uses authority based on 
his/her role and partner relations. The educator encourages the individual in the 
desired activities and manifestations, defining limits, explaining the surrounding 
phenomena, helping to understand life and human relations. The educator is 
consistent and protects the educatee during his/her growth and maturing.
The pedagogue (teacher) is the person having pedagogical education 
(teaching qualifications). The pedagogue is either engaged in direct educational 
work with educatees or works in science and research. 
The educator is a factor bearing social responsibility for the effectiveness and 
success of educational influence. For this influence to have high quality, the 
educator must have a positive relation to children and young people and have 
valuable personality characteristics, character, moral and volitional qualities and 
professional competences.
The teacher is a pedagogue, a person educated to perform the teaching 
profession at school institutions, i.e. to teaching and instruction. The teacher is 
an important agent in the educational process because the teacher plans, 

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organises, controls and assesses these processes. The teacher is responsible for 
these activities. 
Basic qualities expected from the pedagogue/teacher: 
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humanist and democratic value orientation; 
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general and special education; 
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teaching erudition given by pedagogical, didactic and methodological 
skills and habits;
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personality traits and character of the pedagogue, e.g. creativity, high-
principled moral attitudes;
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pedagogical optimism, tactfulness, interest, relation to learners and strict 
fairness;
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physical resistance, health and psychological endowment (Průcha, 2002).