Developing Education Profession Ethics Among Pre-services Teachers: Kohlberg Modeled Training Program Intervention

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the effectiveness of a training program based on Kohlberg Moral Growth Theory in the development of education profession ethics among pre-service teachers at the School of Educational Sciences at the University of Jordan. The study population consisted of (134) classroom teacher students in the academic year 2018/2019. Randomly, (30) students were assigned as the experimental group and (30) students as the control group. Moral judgment scale developed by Al-Disi and Rawadieh (2019) was used to measure moral judgement of education profession ethics. The training program consisted of (6) modules in accordance with Kohlberg. The experimental group joined the ethics training program for two months. Results showed that the training program was (71%) effective in the development of the education profession ethics among the experimental group. The researchers recommended investing the training program in developing a curriculum course of education profession ethics for pre-service teachers.

Keywords: Kohlberg, Pre-Service Teachers, Training Program, Education Profession Ethics, Jordan.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-2-04

Publication date: January 31^st 2020