Ethics and Moral Issues in Education

Course Code:

ED 360

Course Period:

Spring

Course Type:

Core

P:

2

Lab:

0

Credits:

2

ECTS:

3

Course Language:

İngilizce

Course Objectives:

Teachers who can experience moral dilemmas need guidance during their professional lives. Teachers may have to make a choice about sharing a situation with a colleague, trying to get help from a charitable collector, and sometimes how to behave by trusting their intuition. In some cases, it is not even possible to realize that the exhibited behavior is ethical. With this course; it is aimed to provide awareness about moral education, moral dilemma, ethics, professional ethics and professional ethics of teaching.

Course Content:

Basic concepts and theories about moral and ethics; professional ethics social, cultural, moral, ethical aspects of teaching profession; ethical principles in the process of education, training; ethical principles in relation to educational stakeholders (employers / managers, colleagues, parents, professional organizations and society); ethical responsibilities of education / school administrators, parents and students; unethical behavior in professional life; moral / ethical education and ethics in the school

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes Students,	Program Outcomes	Teaching Methods	Assessment Methods
Explains the concepts of moral, moral dilemmas and moral vulnerability.	1, 2,3,5,6,7,8, 4, 11	1.,2.,4	1.,2.,3.,4.,5.,6
Explains the decision making theories in moral dilemmas.	2,3,5,6,7,8, 4, 11	1.,2.,4	1.,2.,3.,4.,5.,6
Explains the factors effecting decision making in moral dilemmas.	2,3,5,6,7,8, 4, 11	1.,2.,4	1.,2.,3.,4.,5.,6
Explains the concepts of morals and ethics.	2,3,5,6,7,8, 4, 13	1.,2.,4	1.,2.,3.,4.,5.,6
Explains ethics, types of ethics and professionalethics.	2,3,5,6,7,8, 4, 13	1.,2.,4	1.,2.,3.,4.,5.,6
Explains the situations related to professional ethics in Turkey and in the World.	2,3,5,6,7,8, 4, 13	1.,2.,4	1.,2.,3.,4.,5.,6
Explains the teaching profession ethics and ethical principles in relation to educational stakeholders	2,3,5,6,7,8, 4, 13	1.,2.,4	1.,2.,3.,4.,5.,6
Explains the ethical codes.	1, 4, 13	1.,2.,4	1.,2.,3.,4.,5.,6

Course Flow

COURSE WORK CALENDER
Week	Subject	Preparation
1	Morals
2	Moral dilemma
3	Moral vulnerability
4	Decision making theories in moral dilemmas
5	Factors effecting decision making in moral dilemmas
6	Moral and ethics
7	Ethics
8	Types of ethics
9	Professional ethics
10	Situations related to Professional ethics in the world
11	Situations related to Professional ethics in Turkey
12	Teaching profession ethics
13	Ethical principles in relation to educational stakeholders
14	Ethical codes

Assessment

ASSESSMENT
IN-TERM STUDIES	NUMBER	PERCENTAGE
Mid-terms	1	40
Quizzes	2	10
Assignment	1	50
Total		100
CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE		40
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE		60
Total		100

ECTS

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION
Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	15	2	30
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	15	2	30
Mid-terms	1	5	5
Kısa Sınav	1	5	5
Ödev	1	6	6
Final examination
Total Work Load			76
Total Work Load / 25 (h)			3,1
ECTS Credit of the Course			3