Analyzing the Ethical Foundations of School Teacher Supervision in the Digital Age

Document Type : Qualitative Research Paper

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1 PhD students, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

3 Professor Of Educational Administration, Department of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

10.22034/jsa.2024.139966.2491

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to investigate the ethical foundations of supervising teachers in the digital age. This research was developmental-applied in terms of purpose and qualitative-quantitative method. The field of the study was school principals in the field of monitoring virtual education, who were selected by the snowball method and at the limit of theoretical saturation. Also, the statistical population of the quantitative part included 120 principals schools in Sanandaj. They were selected randomly using Morgan's table. For measuring the proportionality of the model, the opinions of 30 educational management professors, educational ethics researchers, and educational science professors were obtained. The tool of the qualitative part was a semi-structured interview, whose validity was confirmed by Guba and Lincoln's (2000) opinion method and reliability by agreement between coders. Based on the findings of the research, principals' supervision of teachers' virtual activities was subject to three main concepts of teachers' individual ethics, teacher's social ethics identifiers and spiritual-Islamic ethics identifiers in the form of 5 main categories and 29 components. According to the results, he presented a framework for supervising teachers in the form of 5 general concepts (individual ethics in the classroom, educational content of teachers, social ethics, monitoring relationships and identifiers of spiritual-Islamic ethics), which according to the experts' opinion, the proposed framework of this research is valid and It has a good fit.

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