Sunday, November 8, 2009
The Ethical Mind
Among all the Five Minds for the Future that Gardner mentioned in his book, an Ethical Mind emphasize on professional behavior and attitude within the organization.Just taking an accountability of the structure of the school systems, in recognition of standards. Many students within the system face the risk of disobeying the standards and policy established within the organization. Similarly, Gardner(2008) mentioned that many professionals are disbarred from their profession because of substandard performances. As professionals in the education, our involvement is to create an atmosphere of discipline, respect, creative, and synthesis focal points to educate young students the value of good behavior. The appreciation of others and those who are committed in their communities exemplifying the rights to do good within cultures attain the mind of ethics. In support of Gardner's theory, ethics involves both vertical and horizontal support which come from both families and colleagues respectively. But the latter, is much important. In vertical support, it entails parental support and as an evident for children performance at school.
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How educators treat one another in this profession is very important. We think we do things in secret, but the funny thing is that it's so transparent that, even, students notice. I know we're supposed to be professionals, but there is a difference between being a professional and a robot. I know that accountability is very important, but so are relationships. As a profession we tend to alienate one another for not conforming to the dominant group's culture.When we're not ostracizing one another, we're fiercely competing to outperform one another. We need to spend more time supporting, encouraging, and collaborating with one another to address the needs of our students. That sounds ethical to me.
ReplyDeleteIt is increasingly difficult to foster ethical bases within education when much of the moral compass has been declared taboo, i.e. prayer, scripture, etc.
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