Decline of Professional Ethics in Indian Education System

Abstract

Recently there is an increasing awareness and more importantly, an increasing interest in the field of professional ethics. In fact, perhaps there has not been any time in the history of education development where the concepts and an understanding of the nature of professional ethics have been so urgently needed. The popular concept that if it is education then it will be ethical and if it is ethical, it can be only education and this concept has been declined in last few decades. In higher and technical education the ethical consideration has lost its value and place, in real life ethics cannot be learned by books or by any other source of information, therefore it is really difficult to find ethical people around us, whereas it is very easy to find large number of unethical managers, bureaucrats, educationalist, corporate heads, politicians and elected representatives. This paper describes about ethics, professional ethics and its importance, professional code of ethics for teachers, factors affecting ethical standards in education, lack of ethical education in teachers training programmes and need to re-introduce value based education, spiritual education, ethical education and need based education in the curriculum which should deal with increase in human values, ethical values, rational thinking, learning, research and moral development in education system.
DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.150785