Ethical aspects of educational activity in the digital environment: future teachers’ views

Abstract

The era of digital transformation makes it necessary for pedagogical staff to deal with participants in the educational process in the digital environment, which leads to the creation of new situations of interaction and raises questions of its organizing in the educational process. The authors note that currently there is no common generally accepted list of standards for professional teachers in the digital environment. The aim of the study is to determine the provisions of the Code of Professional Teaching Workers in the Digital Environment based on an analysis of the views of future teachers. As research methods, the authors used formal logic, inductive and deductive analysis, study and generalization of the experience of future generations as part of the analysis of the products of their pedagogical activities (case technology), as well as questionnaires and pedagogical observation. Data for analysis were obtained within the framework of the All-Russian Student Olympiad in Pedagogy “FORSIGHT PEDAGOGY”. The result of the study is the identification of three sections of the Code of Ethics for Professional Workers in the Digital Environment. The first section of the Code is devoted to the standards of self-presentation of pedagogical products in the digital environment, the second section is devoted to tasks related to the standards for the development and implementation of electronic educational resources, the third section concerns the standards for organizing interaction in the digital environment. These sections are structured in a traditional way, reflecting professional and universal values: the image of a teacher, communication, information, freedom, corporate culture. The appendix provides explanations to the paragraph of the Code section. The research also presents the principles of work organization in the digital environment: fairness; transparency; honesty; security and privacy. The material presented in this paper is useful for the teaching process in pedagogical universities, as well as for current teaching staff and future teachers for monitoring and managing their work in the digital environment.