The Ethical Teacher: Description and Analysis of a Personal Ethical Dilemma

EDUC 6922: The Ethical Teacher
Table 1: Part A: Description and analysis or a personal ethical dilemma
Name:
Description of situation: I had to select to uphold faith of a student who came and disclosed in me and secure the issue that was
discussed between me and the child or survey the guidelines of the school that tends to force me to report the fact and issue with the
parent or the school management for the demand of best action. The student clarified how the family abuse him because of the
unsteady families at home.
The nature of the issue for you: I needed to choose to uphold the trust of the student who came to confide me and secure the
issue that was discussed between me and the child or survey the guidelines of the school that which forces me to choose to report
the issue with the parent or the school management for the demand of best action.
Define an ethical dilemma + identify why your situation is a dilemma: An ethical dilemma includes the practice of making a
decision among two options. In most of the cases, neither of the two choices are found to solve the condition in an ethical way.
Reporting the issue of the student to the head of the school authority is a break of privacy among me and the students. Disclosing of
a secret marks me towards the disruption the ethical code of conduct which I am permitting the students to get abused by the family
which us a criminal offence.
All stakeholders involved Stakeholders’ (s/h)
perspectives
Stakeholders’ restrictions at
the time of the dilemma
How does it meet (or not) Our
Code?
1. the child’s family member
2. the child
3. teacher is also involved
4. Centre manager
1.family member
desired to handle the issue on
their own.
2. student should be punished
and counselled
3. deputy head needed the
family member to report to
the police
4. student needed the issue at
the bay
5. Counselling officer wants
the counselling of the student.
1 family member
Do not want to discuss the
primary issue may be in front
of the student.
2. Student feels fear to say
anything to anyone.
3. I do not want the issue to be
taken in front of the police.
4. deputy head of the school
was against the idea of the
issue remaining at the school
5. Counselling officer do not
want to involve police in the
issue.
1. privacy of erroneous is in
contradiction of the code
2. it disrupts the code of the
principled competence
3. it is not correct to go by the
privacy at expense of right of the
law
Chosen priority stakeholder:
1