Ethical Issues and Teacher Education in Nigeria

Musa Ahmed Zarif

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This paper has highlighted the conceptual framework of ethics, ethical issues and discussed the relationship between ethical issue and teacher education with a with a view to highlight the gap that existed in the curriculum of teacher education that has affected the production, behaviour of teachers in compliance to ethical standard of tertiary education in Nigeria. Concluded that teacher factor is very significant in the wellbeing of the country and therefore the welfare as well as basic pre-condition for adequate training of teacher education students must be in place to serve as a process of complying to the ethical standard of teaching profession and recommended that the government should make sure that there is adequate funding of teacher education programs and the government should declare state of emergency for teacher education in Nigeria so that we can have the right caliber of teacher that will man our educational system.


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