Ethics as a Professional Competence in Training: the pedagogue in focus

Abstract:

This article aims to understand ethics as an autonomous and transversal professional competence in the field of pedagogues' training. It discusses the aspects of competence and professional competence; of ethics, professional ethics as competence in the core of the pedagogues' training. Ii is a qualitative research, based on the literature review of renowned thinkers in the field of competences. It dialogues especially with Boterf (2003), Caetano (2010), Estrela and Silva (2010), Garcia (1999) and Perrenoud (2000). It inaugurates the discussion of ethics as a transversal dimension of praxis and maximum competence in the body of professional training.

Keywords:
Professional Competence; Training; Pedagogue