USING E-LEARNING IN TEACHER EDUCATION – ETHICAL APPROACH
USING E-LEARNING IN TEACHER EDUCATION – ETHICAL APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: This paper goal is to identify some of the ethical issues that have to be taken into account when we develop e-learning formal activities under the initial teacher training curricula. Teaching actions are significant, and that is why they depend on the intentions and importance their protagonists (student and teacher/tutor) are giving to them. Reflection (in the professional action) is not necessarily punctual and fast; the practitioner has to take a lot of decisions thus, the reflection in action the educator became “a researcher in the practical context”. Under these circumstances, the teacher does not depend on theories and pre-established techniques, but building a new manner of formulating the problem, that allows dealing with its particularities and decide what is worth being saved or solved in that specific case. The main conclusion is that the new pedagogical dimensions imposed by e-learning have to be correlated with the ethical issues of teachers’ professionalism. Some findings from experimental data (e-learning and the teacher’s pre-service education curricula, e-portfolio on the in-service teacher training) are presented under this theoretical perspective which can be developed like a needed policy paper for using e-learning on teacher’s education.

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