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Teaching Ethics in Adult Education

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Teacher professional ethics is the moral code, moral concept and code of conduct that education workers must observe in their education careers. Teachers working on adult on-job training should have more professional ethics than other teachers, such as, the universal ethics, the pragmatic sense of responsibility, the flexible adaptability, posture the affinity of equality and close to the practical action. In view of the professional ethics of Chinese adult in-service training teachers in recent years, there are professional ethics, utilitarianism tendencies, job burnout and other issues. This article promotes that we should combine education and self-study to strengthen professional ethics training; pubic opinion guides and assessments at the same time, improve professional ethics institutional construction; follow the adult training rules for on-job training, give full play to the professional guidance fuction of professional ethics, etc. Strengthen the construction of adult job training teacher professional ethics.

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    “Teachers Law of the People’s Republic of China” (Article 10: The State shall institute a system of qualifications for teachers. All Chinese citizens, who abide by the Constitution and laws, take a keen interest in education, have sound ideological and moral character, possess a record of formal schooling as stipulated in this Law or have passed the national teachers’ qualification examinations, have educational and teaching ability may, after being evaluated as qualified, obtain qualifications for teachers.). http://en.pkulaw.cn.ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/display.aspx?id=537&lib=law&SearchKeyword=&SearchCKeyword=%bd%cc%ca%a6%b7%a8 accessed 3 September 2016.

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    Ibid.

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Zheng, Y., Lu, Y. (2018). Teaching Ethics in Adult Education. In: Bian, J., Çalıyurt, K. (eds) Regulations and Applications of Ethics in Business Practice. Accounting, Finance, Sustainability, Governance & Fraud: Theory and Application. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8062-3_8

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