Components of Teachers’ Professional Ethics: A Systematic Review Based on Wright’s Model

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran

2 Department of Educational Sciences, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran

3 Higher Education Planning Group, Higher Education Research and Planning Institute.

4 Department of Educational Sciences, Birjand University

Abstract

the aim of present research is to analyze the components of teachers’ professional Ethics. approach of the present research is of descriptive and its method is systematic review on the Wright and colleague model (2007). The population consists of 623 articles about components of professional ethic of teachers, have been presented in valid scientific magazines between 2000 and 2020. Sample of the research is 29 articles, have been collected systematically and have been chosen by thematic monitoring of data. Based on data analysis, components of professional ethic of teachers were classified on 4 dimensions and in 14 factors. These dimensions include an individual dimension (consists of personality factors, perceptive skills, religious commitment and neatness in terms of one’s appearance), organizational dimension (consists of commitment, professional development and communication), social dimension (consists of social values and social relations) and teaching and learning process (consists of observing the educational rules, teaching content, method of teaching, assessment and research).

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