Moral Choices/Moral Conflicts: teachers’ self‐perceptions

The Ethics of Teaching as a Moral Profession

“…Shortly after this in 1993, the special issue of the Journal of Moral Education on professional morality that was referenced previously generated three articles that explored the area of moral and ethical decision making as well as dilemma resolution in teaching. Firstly, using questionnaires and structured interviews with teachers, Joseph and Efron (1993) concluded, “teachers’ individual moralities shape the choices they make and the conflicts that concern them” (p. 201). Secondly, in an article on the ethical decisions “at the heart of teaching,”Tippins, Tobin, and Hook (1993) referred to complex decisions “embedded in the professional lives of teachers” (p. 221) as being ethical dilemmas.…”

Faculty Members’ Ethical Behaviors: A Survey Based on Students' Perceptions at Universities in Turkey

“…Here, faculty are supposed to be objective and equitable in evaluation process of all students, which must be based on nondiscriminatory procedures, conducted by personnel trained to utilize appropriate methods and procedures ( Jacob & Hartshorne, 2003;Robertson & Grant, 1982;Strike, 1990). However, it is considered that it does not always happen in this way (Bebeau, 1993;Joseph & Efron, 1993;Johnson, 2007).…”

Measuring the Ethical Levels of Special Education Teachers

“…When examining the position forwarded in the educational literature that there is a considerable moral mission undertaken by the special educator, it appears that colleges of education have failed to insure that special educators possess the requisite moral reasoning ability to function as a moral agent. 6 Rest [28] 7 Aggregate set of adults from previous research studies, not a random set of adults selected from the general population. Compiled and reported by Rest [22].…”

“…Over the last decade, the centuries old idea that an educator is a "moral agent" charged with a "uniquely moral task" has experienced a significant rebirth in the educational literature [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. For example, Althof and Oser [16] write "At last, the moral dimensions of schooling have been rediscovered as a major arena of both educational philosophy and research and of practice in the teaching profession (p. 253)".…”