What Principals Say About Teachers’ Unethical Behaviors in The Teaching Process?

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10.2991/978-94-6463-686-4_43How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ethic; Teaching Professional Ethics; Unethical Behavior

Abstract

This research was conducted to reveal the unethical behaviors of teachers towards students, colleagues, parents and school administrators while performing their profession, according to the opinions of school principals. The research was conducted using the case study design within the qualitative research tradition. The study group was determined using criterion sampling and snowball sampling, which are among the purposeful sampling methods. Descriptive analysis and content analysis methods, which are qualitative data analysis techniques, were used to analyze the school principal's opinions. According to the findings, unethical behavior of teachers; It was grouped into five sub-themes: behaviors towards students, the profession, colleagues, parents and administrators. It is of great importance to concretize the ethical principles that the professional competence of teachers is necessary and important and to make it one of the basic issues. In this regard, knowing the unethical behaviors that teachers exhibit towards students, colleagues, parents and school administrators while performing their profession will take their indispensable place in education by assuming the role model role of the teacher, who carries ethical values with him to the future.

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TI  - What Principals Say About Teachers’ Unethical Behaviors in The Teaching Process?
BT  - Proceeding of the 10th International Conference on Lifelong Education and Leadership for ALL (ICLEL 2024)
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