Academic Actions for Developing Ethics in Higher Education

Abstract

Higher education is fundamental for the development of honest professionals and citizens; each educational action is indeed ethical. From a philosophical and conceptual analysis of the relationship between ethics and education, this research aimed to define academic actions for developing ethics in higher education, identifying possible obstacles and proposing concrete actions for their implementation in praxis. This research is qualitative, documentary-descriptive, inductive, non-experimental, and cross-sectional through a bibliographic review based on scientific data. It is argued that academic management organised around an educational model oriented towards ethics, will guide teacher training programs for this purpose. For its effective implementation, it proposes mainstreaming ethics in the curriculum and the development of an Ethics Lecture or Chair, keeping in mind that teachers and institutional behaviour and actions, directly impact students’ ability to be citizens guided by ethics.