Teacher professional ethics education (with emphasis on Islamic rights and duties) at Farhangian University (effectiveness; challenges and solutions)

The present research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of professional ethics education in Farhangian University and exploring its challenges and solutions. For this purpose, a mixed research method has been used. In the quantitative part, a semi-experimental research design with pre-test-post-test and control group was used. 1 class of elementary education students entering october 2019 who had taken the teacher's professional ethics course were considered as the experimental group and 1 class of students of the same field and entry who had not taken this course were considered as the control group. The data collection tool was Qasimzadeh's professional ethics questionnaire (2013). Data analysis was done by descriptive statistics, univariate covariance analysis and SPSS22 software. In the qualitative part, the thematic analysis of Brawn and Clark’s (2006) was used. The results of the quantitative part showed that teaching professional ethics of teachers significantly increases the professional ethics of student teachers (P<0.001); But it is still far from the optimal level. In the qualitative part, the challenges of this program include the challenges of the field of thought (the weakening of morals in the society; disregarding the value and dignity of teachers) and the challenges of the field of practice (the conflict between theory and practice; curriculum problems ) was analyzed. Also, strategies for promoting ethics education at two university levels (student recruitment policies; professor selection policies; continuous empowerment) and classroom (choosing appropriate content; using appropriate teaching methods) were identified.