“Teaching is offering up values in an attractive way” – Interview with professor László Tamás Szabó

Abstract

Prof. Dr. László Tamás Szabó, who popularised the metaphor of the hidden curriculum, has revolutionised the way how we think about school. Due to his pivotal role in teacher education, his students often call him “the teacher of teachers.” He has presented at countless national and international conferences and published numberless papers.

In the following interview, we are going to ask him about those life events and influences that have shaped his academic career, and have also been intertwined with the history of Hungarian educational sciences. The interview is an edited version of the fourth conversation of the podcast series “Switching, Where Educational Research Generations Meet”, which is related to the CHERD-Hungary Educational Research Internship Program.

The podcast series enables the meeting of three generations of researchers, who discuss the issues of school, education and upbringing. We invited significant domestic figures of the field of educational sciences to the talks, masters from whom we learned a lot, as well as one of their former doctoral students, who is still active in research. They were interviewed by a teaching intern student, representing novice researchers.

The questions posed during the interview were formulated by the members of the internship program, the organizers and the interviewers. In the following, Prof. Dr. László Tamás Szabó is interviewed by Dorottya Fekete, a member of the young researcher generation, and by an ex-doctoral student of his Professor Szabó, Dr. Tímea Szűcs.