Dissertation
Ethical decision-making: exploring how teachers define and respond to professional dilemmas
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Drexel University
May 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/wwv7-x309
Abstract
Throughout the course of their careers, teachers will encounter a variety of professional dilemmas that will demand their attention; how they choose to address these dilemmas can have a lasting impact on their students, their careers and their communities. In order for teachers to effectively address these ethical dilemmas, they need to enter the teaching profession with the appropriate skills and training. By using a social constructivist approach based in grounded theory, this study explored the experiences that teachers have had with ethical decision-making and how they have navigated the process of addressing such dilemmas. Findings from this study addressed six key themes (1) Demographic Information, (2) Disposition, Values, and Ethics, (3) Ethics Training, (4) Identifying Ethical Dilemmas, (5) Addressing Ethical Dilemmas, and (6) Training Need Areas. Analysis of these themes and the existing literature identified a significant link between the participants' professional dispositions and key philosophical approaches to ethics, the importance of cultural diversity awareness when making ethical decisions, common types of professional ethical dilemmas encountered by teachers and the existence of ethics training opportunities. The recommendations generated from this study are designed to help those who develop teacher preparation curricula to construct programs that provide teacher candidates with effective and comprehensive ethics training opportunities
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Details
- Title
- Ethical decision-making
- Creators
- Amber Lynn Vraim - DU
- Contributors
- Joy C. Phillips (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- ix, 112 pages
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Education (1997-2026); Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 9419; 991014632611704721