Explicit ethics education for prospective teachers - an essential precursor for quality teaching - ethics training for pre-service teachers

[Extract] In the wake of the global financial crisis in 2009 in Australia and elsewhere, widespread attention was placed on ethical behaviour in the workplace. Ethical pactice in the workplace was the underpinning consideration and background of a study based at a regional Australian university funded by a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) grant. The study sought to examine and connect university training and professional practice, and to explore some of the ethical dimensions that concern those in the medical and teaching professions (Boon et al. 2009) because similar principles underpin ethical considerations and dilemmas practitioners in both fields. For example, the principles of justice and integrity govern interactions and guide professional engagement with school students or patients. Our considerations with ethical behaviour also coincided with a worldwide move to remedy the misguided marginalization moral education from college and university curricula (Glanzer and Ream 2007)