The student-teachers maintained that they understood the reason why some lecturers
appeared unapproachable. According to the student-teachers, the most probable
reason that these lecturers kept a distance between their student-teachers and
themselves was because they wanted to remain objective about student-teachers’
abilities and grades. But the student-teachers also insisted that as young adults, they
knew how to maintain the boundaries of the relationship between student-teachers
and lecturers. From the student-teachers’ point of view, building a wall between the
student-teachers and the lecturers was unacceptable to them. One of the focus-group
discussions stated that: