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http://dx.doi.org/10.5723/kjcs.2016.37.6.185

Early Childhood Teacher's Professional Ethics: The Code of Ethical Conduct  

Cho, Eun-Jin (Department of Child Studies, Seoul Women's University)
Han, Sae-Young (Department of Child Development, Ewha Womans University)
Shin, Hye Eun (Department of Early Childhood Education, Kyungdong University)
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Korean Journal of Child Studies / v.37, no.6, 2016 , pp. 185-200 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objective: This study examined the code of ethics, which offers guidelines for early childhood teachers' ethical decisions and practices. Results and Conclusion: In the second section of this paper, the meaning of the code of ethics is reviewed. The issues of the code of ethics are also investigated to resolve moral and ethical dilemmas and to maintain high standards of professional conduct in early childhood care and education. In the third section of this paper, a comparison of the ethical codes in South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States is conducted. Based on the results raised in relation to the code of ethics principles and the results of comparing domestic and international ethics codes, the fourth section of this paper focuses on three topics in the current and future direction of the Korean code of ethics: (a) concreteness and clarity, (b) switching from the viewpoint of least harm to the viewpoint of maximum benefit, and (c) the range of benefits of the code of ethics. Then, including the existence of the last two codes of ethics, we discuss the direction of future difficulties currently associated with the situation in Korea.
Keywords
code of ethics; ethical dilemma; professional ethics; young children;
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