Professional ethics and teacher education (original) (raw)

Practicing ethical values in the modern society is a serious challenge and problem for individuals, society and nation. If an individual's personality has to be developed all round and if an environment of truthfulness, love, cooperation, sympathy, forbearance, brotherhood has to be created in the society, following ethics is of primordial importance. Education plays an important role in not only understanding the importance of values but also in assimilating them. Ethical issues, taken as complex and integrating dimensions, pervade the reflection on values in the daily lives of people and communities, where the rational and emotional, affective and intuitive, thought and action, objective and subjective are layered upon each other, thus, contributing to the equation of individual and collective meanings. Education, as a social instrument between the past that is to be conveyed and a future that is to be prepared, presents tension on the one hand between socialization and conservatism, while on the other, is itself an interpreter, constructor and diffuser of meanings. The purpose of this study is to explore the issues related to ethics that education and training have to take into account. Furthermore, we have identified certain aspects regarding the ethical training of teachers, which connect it to other dimensions under study, namely the regulation and creation of a deontological code and the ethical, personal and professional conceptions of teachers.