An Enforceable Code of Ethics: What Do Practitioners Think?

Autor/in	Pollnitz, Lois
Titel	An Enforceable Code of Ethics: What Do Practitioners Think?
Quelle	In: Journal of Australian Research in Early Childhood Education, 1 (1997), S.81-90 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1320-6648
Schlagwörter	Accountability; Caregiver Attitudes; Child Caregivers; Codes of Ethics; Compliance (Legal); Discipline; Discipline Policy; Early Childhood Education; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verantwortung; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Disziplin; Disziplinarmaßnahme; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	As part of a larger project begun three years after the adoption of the Australian Early Childhood Association (AECA) Code of Ethics, this study sought practitioners' views about formal enforcement of a code of ethics for early childhood personnel. Questionnaires were sent to directors of 200 early childhood services in New South Wales; about 225 practitioners in 109 centers responded. The results of the study confirm that the majority of practitioners, regardless of their situation, qualifications, position of responsibility, or experience, perceive ethical issues as worth struggling with intellectually, and are committed to adherence to a uniform code of ethics for early childhood personnel. Though opinion is divided about whether adherence should be voluntary or compulsory, and about what body should be responsible for monitoring adherence to a code, there is a detectable tendency for those practitioners with more years of experience to record positive responses to the notion of compulsory adherence and enforcement by a professional body. Despite their strong support for action to be taken for code violation, practitioners' preference for appropriate action is limited to counseling and reprimand. (Contains 11 references.) (EV)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC