Özet:

All professional people are obliged to look after the goodness, benefit, and interest of the people they are responsible for while doing their jobs. In this regard, every profession has ethical principles to guide its employees. The ethical principles are established to guide teachers, who are the executors of education, which is considered a sacred work in every period of history, when making decisions, taking actions in their professional lives, or falling into dilemmas about what is right and what is wrong. The issue of what ethical principles teachers should adopt towards their duties and responsibilities towards their profession, colleagues, students, families, and society has been evaluated by different authorities, educational scientists, and philosophers at various times. One of the thinkers who made this evaluation was the Brazilian philosopher Paulo Freire. Freire emphasizes the ethical principles that teachers should pay attention to when doing their profession and emphasizes that there should be no distance between teachers’ professional practices and ethical principles. Freire, who establishes a link between the qualities that a teacher should have and the nature of the act of teaching, examined in detail in his work the ethical principles that a teacher should consider. This study aims to examine Freire’s determinations on this subject and how he grounded the relationship between education and ethics.