Ethics of Teaching: Beliefs and Behaviors of Community College Faculty

This study examines the ethical beliefs and behaviors of full-time community college faculty. Respondents report to what degree they practice sixty-two behaviors as teachers and whether they believe the behaviors to be ethical. Survey participants engaged in few of the behaviors, and only reported two actions as ethical: (1) accepting inexpensive gifts from students and (2) teaching values or ethics. The participants reported diverse responses to questions about behavior of a sexual nature, but most agreed that sexual relationships with students or colleagues at the same, higher or lower rank were unethical. Additional findings relate to the presence of diversity among the faculty, using school resources to publish textbooks and external publications, selling goods to students, and an expansive list of other behaviors. Findings of this study are compared to results from earlier studies that utilized the same or similar survey instrument with teaching faculty. The study has implications for organizational policy and procedure, for faculty training and development, the teaching of ethics or values in the classroom and for future research.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2002

Author dc:creator

• Scales, Renay Ford

Contributors dc:contributor

• Newsom, Ronald W.
• Boyd, Nancy
• Jones, Jesse

• College teaching -- Moral and ethical aspects.
• Community college teachers.
• ethics
• teaching
• sexual relationships
• community college

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Scales, Renay Ford
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 50840884
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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