Professional Development and Ethics for Adult Educators: A Rebuilding Trust in Adult Education Practice
Emmanuel Tayo Daramola
University of Ilesa, Ilesa, Nigeria
Abstract
Professional development is the strategy use to strengthen practice in any careers, it also use to apply new knowledge and skills that will improve performance on the job. Ethics serve as a basic foundation for responsible practice in any field with a strong service orientation, it serve as guideline for individual collective responsibility in response to societal need for competent, accountable practitioners, enhancing credibility for a field of practice by functioning as a means of self-regulation. This paper, therefore, highlight ethical issue and its relationship with adult education profession and need for professional development in adult education practice. It was concluded that professional ethics are an integral part of adult education profession and to rebuild the profession to be relevant in this 21st century, scholars in the field of the adult education need to develop a greater awareness and sensitivity to ethical issues.
Keywords
Adult Educator, Professional Development, Ethics, Rebranding
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