The Institutionalisation of Teacher Ethics in Tanzania’s Secondary Schools: A School Head’s Perspective

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dc.contributor.authorFussy, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-05T06:30:23Z
dc.date.available2019-03-05T06:30:23Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores practices that school heads employ to institutionalise teacher ethics in Tanzania’s secondary schools. It draws on qualitative data, generated through in-depth face-to-face interviews and document analyses. Secondary school heads, teachers and students from Iringa Municipality were involved in the study. The findings demonstrate that school heads employed several strategies to institutionalise teacher ethics, which include staff induction, allotment of weekly virtue practices, supervising and counselling individual teachers, assembling staff meetings and posting ethics related placards on staff room noticeboards. The study has shown that most of the practices lacked a profound impact on shaping teachers’ professional conduct. The study adds knowledge to school leadership literature from Tanzania, particularly on the aspect of teacher ethics. Accordingly, the study recommends that school heads should institute mentoring programmes where by early career teachers are attached to veteran teachers to regularly enhance their professional knowledge and behaviour. School heads should exemplify ethical conduct within and outside school premises by serving as role models for the teachers to facilitate the promotion of teacher ethics. Furthermore, education officers at the regional and district level should provide professional development programmes for school heads to further raise the awareness and confidence of school heads’ professional obligations.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFussy, D. S. (2018). The Institutionalisation of Teacher Ethics in Tanzania’s Secondary Schools: A School Head’s Perspective. Pakistan Journal of Education, 35(2), 79-96.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://pje.aiou.edu.pk/?p=676
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5092
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPakistan Journal of Educationen_US
dc.subjectteacher ethics, teacher professionalism, teacher misconduct, code of professional conduct, school headsen_US
dc.titleThe Institutionalisation of Teacher Ethics in Tanzania’s Secondary Schools: A School Head’s Perspectiveen_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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