Shikshan Anveshika
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 2

Professional Ethics and Moral code: Urge in Teaching Profession

Assistant Professor, Hindu College of Education, Sonipat (Haryana)

Online published on 2 September, 2017.

Abstract

Teaching may be regarded as a profession in its own right, and one that demands a great deal of professional expertise. But it also requires its own code of ethics, which may be expressed in a set of ethical principles. These constitute a code of quality control for the profession and those who practise it, a response to the trust shown by society at large. Professional teacher's ethics is a collection of moral codes of their professional work. It is significant that the teaching profession respects certain designated professional-ethical codes of conduct between the teachers and the students, with their colleagues and other people they professionally cooperate with. The professional teacher's ethics is a sum of moral codes of their professional work. At the teaching profession it is important to respect few kinds of moral codes, which are basically divided into the following groups: general moral codes of the teaching profession, moral codes of conduct between teachers and students, with their colleagues, and the other subjects they professionally cooperate with. Good ethical principles cannot compensate for poor professional skills, and good professional skills cannot make up for a lack of ethical principles. The paper included that code of ethics for teacher is very essential in order to raise the image of teaching.

Keywords

Moral code, Profession, Teaching