Ethics Teacher and Professional Ethics of Special Education Teaching in Turkey (original) (raw)

2020, International Journal of Eurasian Education and Culture

Ethics is a branch of science that covers professionalism, justice, equality, honesty, accuracy, professional commitment and development, which attempts to establish the concepts related to morality by questioning what they are, and allows experts in their field to make the distinction between right and wrong. The concept of professional ethics also covers all of these rules. This study includes the principles of professional ethics and solutions for the problems that teacher candidates may benefit from during their pre-service education periods. In this study, which is a descriptive survey model, a study group is constituted with 35 candidates for special education teachers. The candidates who participated in the study were asked questions that were prepared in the form of semi-structured and triple-likert. The collected information is obtained by examining the data content analysis technique. The findings of this study revealed that educators who care about moral values, who are fair, who carry out professional responsibility, who are respectful, who care about the student, who are bound by laws and rules, and who do not derive personal benefits are ethical teachers. Special education teacher candidates see their ethical principles and values as a priority over laws and regulations. Special education teacher candidates state that the concept of professional ethics is related to concepts such as ethics and values, responsibilities, the whole of the rules that must be followed, development by the profession, professionalism, equality, and respect. It was determined that the majority of the information they learned about professional ethics of special education teacher candidates were obtained from the courses they took while they were students. It was concluded that they tried to complete their deficiencies by reading books and articles on hearsay information and professional values. During the transition to the profession, it was observed that what was taught to the teacher candidates about professional ethics and the studies for the teacher candidates were insufficient. Some suggestions have been made regarding this area by taking the results of the research into account.