<p>Ethical codes of the early childhood education (ECE) profession are written documents that define a set of rules and principles that guide educators’ responsibilities from an ethical perspective. Many countries have ethical charters for this important profession. However, Egypt has no ethical code to guide kindergarten teachers in their educational roles. This research therefore aims to create a code of ethics for Egypt's ECE profession using the Delphi method. The study included 17 experts in the first round, 15 in the second, and 14 in the third. They were selected through a set of criteria: to be university professors, specialists in the field of child education fundamentals, and who have developed previous ethical charters for the teaching profession. The Delphi technique, conducted in three rounds, began with a closed-open questionnaire that was distributed to the group of experts in paper or electronic form as selected. In each round, other sentences were added and deleted until the ethical code reached its current form after the experts’ response reached 100% in many sections of the proposed charter. The code consists of eight sections: concept, importance, objectives, standards, characteristics, kindergarten teachers’ roles, their rights, and the oath. The study explained the proportion of the group of experts' compatibility with the questionnaire in the three rounds. The code of ethics is thus the first ethical charter to have been created in a Delphi technique in the ECE field in Egypt, and this illustrates its originality.</p>

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Creating a Code of Ethics for the Early Childhood Education Profession: A Delphi Study with Cross-National Comparisons

  • Sahar Hassan Taher,
  • Randa Eldeeb,
  • Gaber Tolba

摘要

Ethical codes of the early childhood education (ECE) profession are written documents that define a set of rules and principles that guide educators’ responsibilities from an ethical perspective. Many countries have ethical charters for this important profession. However, Egypt has no ethical code to guide kindergarten teachers in their educational roles. This research therefore aims to create a code of ethics for Egypt's ECE profession using the Delphi method. The study included 17 experts in the first round, 15 in the second, and 14 in the third. They were selected through a set of criteria: to be university professors, specialists in the field of child education fundamentals, and who have developed previous ethical charters for the teaching profession. The Delphi technique, conducted in three rounds, began with a closed-open questionnaire that was distributed to the group of experts in paper or electronic form as selected. In each round, other sentences were added and deleted until the ethical code reached its current form after the experts’ response reached 100% in many sections of the proposed charter. The code consists of eight sections: concept, importance, objectives, standards, characteristics, kindergarten teachers’ roles, their rights, and the oath. The study explained the proportion of the group of experts' compatibility with the questionnaire in the three rounds. The code of ethics is thus the first ethical charter to have been created in a Delphi technique in the ECE field in Egypt, and this illustrates its originality.