A Study of the Condition of Morality and Ethics as a Teacher           in the 21st Century and the Public Mind of Student Teachers

Somjai Kongterm

doi:10.57260/rcmrj.2022.261328

Authors

Somjai Kongterm Faculty of Education, Phetchabun Rajabhat University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.57260/rcmrj.2022.261328

Keywords:

Condition study, Morality and ethics, Public mind

Abstract

The purpose of this survey research was to learn more about public attitudes of student teachers as well as the morals and ethics of instructors in the twenty-first century. There is 160 second-year students in the population and 115 of them make up the sample group. The method involves looking at morality, twenty-first-century teaching ethics, and public opinion. Questionnaires that were examined by frequency distribution, percentage, and mean ( $gif.latex?\bar{x}$ ) were the instruments utilized to gather the data, as well as and standard deviation (S.D.). The results of a study on the condition of morality and ethics of teachers in the 21^st century and the public mind of student teachers from the questionnaire, it was found that the basic information of the respondents when classified by gender, in this regard 36.52% were males, and 63.48% were females. In this regard, 56.53% were in English, and 43.47% were in early childhood education. As for the experience of self-improvement in moral, ethical and public mind development, 17.40 percent of students had participated in the activities, and 82.60 percent had never participated. It was found that the student-teacher's morality and ethics of being a teacher in the 21^st century and the overall public mind of student teachers were at a moderate level ( $gif.latex?\bar{x}$ = 3.40, S.D =. 0.75).

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