Respect, responsibility and honesty in an educational task from the point of view of teaching post graduate professors

 This paper describes the results generated by three open ended questions applied to fifteen teaching post graduate professors working at a University in the northeast of Mexico.  Through this research, we wanted to discover the significance of being responsible, respectful and honest.  In accordance with the results obtained, ‘to to fulfill schedules’; ‘respect institutional policies’ and ‘to attend to the demands of your students’ are the characteristics most mentioned as defining what a “responsible professor” means.  With respect to the declaration “respectful professor”, the most named aspects are ‘recognizing the other’; ‘good manners’ and ‘responsibility’, and to describe an “honest professor”, the most common answers were ‘to assume the truth’ and ‘responsibility’.