The Relationship between Professional Development and Professional Ethics According to the Mediating Role of the Application of Adult Education Principles in Primary Teachers

Professional ethics is one of the factors of teachers' professional development, which leads to the growth and strengthening of teachers' professional development. The current research was conducted with the aim of the relationship between professional development and professional ethics, considering the mediating role of the application of adult education principles in teachers of Sarayan city.               

This research was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of correlation type. The research population of all primary school teachers in Sarayan city in the academic year 2018-2019, which are 140 people, and the sample of the research, which was conducted by simple random sampling method, with the Morgan table, the sample size was 103 people. The research tools were three standard professional ethics questionnaires, teachers' professional development questionnaire, and a researcher-made questionnaire on the principles of adult education. The content validity and reliability of the questionnaires were estimated based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.83, 0.86 and 0.89, respectively. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (one-sample t-tests, correlation coefficient and path analysis) were used in SPSS version 22 software and Lisrel software.

The results showed that the application of the principles of adult education for the second, fourth, fifth, eighth and ninth standards (creating and maintaining a learning atmosphere, measuring and communicating with learning results, evaluating and reflecting on learning and teaching, content knowledge, using educational technology) is mediated. It is a suitable tool for predicting teachers' professional ethics.

setting standards in teacher training programs and applying the principles of adult education in teacher training courses can improve teachers' professional ethics.