APPROACHES TO THE MENTORING ACTIVITY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF EDUCATIONAL ETHICS

<doi>10.24250/jpe/si/2025/LT/</doi>

Authors

  • Liana TAUSAN Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

Keywords:

mentoring, educational ethics, mentor teachers, mentoring relationship, code of professional ethics

Abstract

Knowledge of professional responsibilities from a
moral-pedagogical perspective is a goal of
educational ethics codes. As a professional
educator, a mentor teacher must have the ability to
carry out reflections, critical-constructive analyses
and representations of fundamental pedagogical
concepts and, at the same time, to offer moral
perspectives in various professional and life
situations. Establishing educational objectives at
different levels, selecting and configuring
educational content, establishing evaluation forms,
methods, and criteria, managing and regulating
relationships with learners, colleagues, decisionmakers,
and parents are all professional
responsibilities that require pedagogical but also
ethical competencies for educational professionals.
The inclusion in codes of professional ethics in
education of issues related to the deontology of
educational purposes, the deontology of educational
content, the deontology of evaluation, the
deontology of pedagogical relations can stimulate
the reflection and action of teachers who carry out
mentoring activities but, at the same time, also that
of the mentored persons. The purpose of the
investigation was to highlight the importance of
including in the codes of educational ethics some
principles that regulate the exercise of mentor roles,
especially from the perspective of the deontology of
evaluation and the deontology of pedagogical
relations between teacher and student but also
between teachers. Starting from the premise that
ethical and deontological regulations in any
professional field have the role of protecting the
quality of professional services offered by specialists
in that field, the need to consider ethical principles
of behaviour of the mentor teacher is imperative in the educational field and that of initial professional
training due to the mechanism that underpins the
mentoring process: the mentor's professional service
includes behaviours and attitudes, and it has a
formative, directing, and guiding role more than in
other fields.

Author Biography

Liana TAUSAN, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

 

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Published

2025-07-17