Assignment:

Ethical Issues

Ethical Responsibilities - Mandate describing what early childhood educators must or must not do. They describe how early childhood educators are required to act and are clearly spelled out in the Code.

Ethical Dilemmas - Situations that present conflicting obligations and have more than one possible resolution, each of which can be justified as being a choice. An ethical dilemma will present a choice between one or more ethical principles or ideals.

After reading of Feeney, 2018, choose one of the scenarios to determine whether or not it is an ethical issue, and if it is, whether it is a dilemma or a responsibility. State a rationale for your decision, including the ethical principles and ideals involved.

Resources for this assignment:

Feeney & Freeman. (2018). Chapters 1, 2 and 3 (pp.1-29) in Ethics and the Early Childhood Educator: Using the NAEYC Code (3rd Ed.)