"ETHICAL VIEW ON TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIP. A PANDEMIC APPROACH"

Abstract

The health crisis we are going through is very demanding on the relationship between students and teachers in terms of professional ethics. Many teachers had real difficulties in applying legal measures of social distancing, limiting students' access to classrooms (hybrid physical and online system, imposing hygiene measures, etc.), which together negatively affected the quality of the teacher-student relationship. The emotional and cognitive comfort that teachers must provide to students according to the codes of didactic ethics, the sense of belonging and relationship resulting from a class management aimed at stimulating team spirit became during the pandemic incompatible with health safety rules imposed by authority. In this context, we propose through this paper to debate the need to theoretically complete the future codes of ethics of the teaching profession with the concept of ethics of care. The authors believe that especially in extreme contexts, such as the Covid 19 pandemic, we need to bring to mind the foundations of human relationships based on the valorization of students by their teachers, and specific codes of ethics should be more explicit in dignity provisions. to all those involved in education.