MORAL DISTRESS OF SCHOOLTEACHERS (RESEARCH REVIEW)

"Our research review aims to identify areas in which schoolteachers experience moral distress. The research of moral distress in health professions, especially nurses, has been steadily growing in recent years. Teachers and nurses describe moral dilemmas that are similar in nature, and the environment may be considered highly similar in various aspects (Shapira-Lischinsky, 2010, Brüggemann et al., 2019). Social pressures put teachers in front of moral dilemmas, and they must repeatedly choose either to succumb to social pressure and decide with which they disagree internally, or to take a risk, oppose the pressure and do what they consider morally right (Mares, 2017). However, teachers also experience situations of ethical dilemmas involving their colleagues or superiors behaving in an unethical way (Brüggemann et al., 2019; Campbell, 1996; Tirri, 1999). Teachers then experience a moral outrage and face the dilemma of whether and how to intervene. This study is a systematic review of studies selected via keywords, narrowed down to 2010-2021 period. A summary of these studies might contribute to future research as well as to the future development of better measurement of moral distress in schools."