Ethical Lapses in Profession: Case of Community School Teachers in Nepal

Abstract

This study embraces how teacher performs duty under the institutional rules and regulation in the course of their professional life. The unpunctuality in duty, mistreating to students, poor dedication in responsibility, lack of collaboration among professionals misleads to teacher to accomplish their responsibility and hence undergoes to rupture an ethics of teaching profession. The main aim of this study is to explore the lived experience of children about the behavior of teacher in the classroom activity. The five students of different level representing diversified characteristics were purposively selected and interviewed through semi structure interview guidelines in their natural setting. The interview responses were transcribed as verbatim and analyzed by extracting theme within theoretical framework based upon post structuralism and discourse analysis. In the students' narratives more than five themes were identified from the discussion regarding with ethical lapses of teacher in the class room. The study explored punctuality, professional identity, social acceptance, accountability, discriminatory behavior in the classroom. Such type of lapses cannot contribute to effective teaching learning environment. And hence learning performance of children is residing back to the expected goal. This study result can become way out to set up strategies for making ideal teacher. The teacher also knows about their responsibility to be carried out in the line of student development.