Conceptions and evaluation criteria of university professors belonging to the field of humanities on the relationship between ethics and teaching excellence

This article is one of the products of the research project "Study on the Excellence of Postgraduate Teaching Staff in the National Autonomous University of Mexico", in which the University of Colima participates as a guest collaborator along with other universities. The objective aimed by this work is to analyze the conceptions about ethics and their relationship with the teaching excellence of teachers belonging to the field of humanities. From the above, the following questions arise: What is the relationship between ethics and education in the university context? How does the humanities teacher define ethics and in what ways does it relate to teaching excellence? To address these issues, there were selected interviews with teachers with a relevant background in the areas of Philosophy, Literature and History, collaborators in different postgraduate programs at the University of Colima; likewise, the ethical dimension, the values and the teaching profile of the educational model of the aforementioned university were examined. The interviews with teachers in the humanities were chosen because they were the ones who thought in greater depth on ethical issues. The results show the links between ethics and teaching excellence from the perspective of the subjects interviewed.