Ethical Issues Of Contemporary Education Laws And Regulations

The stableness and orderliness of human society need a variety of means to be adjusted and protected. Laws and regulations, which are enacted by the country and government agencies, must be in the most prime position among all the means of adjusting human relations. But just relying solely on the force of the external constraints, laws and regulations can easily become "laws on paper", which are only formalism. The stability of the society must rely on both laws and other flexible means, which is coupled hardness with softness in regulating, adjusting, and restraining the relationship of people.Education, which develops and transfers human civilization, is the unique culture of human society. It carries the important task of human continuity and determines the direction and speed of human development. And therefore, more and more countries pay attention to the education and study in-depth. Since the education is so important, the education laws and regulations must be more critical to the protection and regulation of educational activities. Education laws and regulations regulate and protect the educational activities, and also exert a subtle influence on educational participants’thinking and behavior, which are even more critical to the educated. The education laws and regulations regulate and restrain the educated, which are gradually deep into the hearts of them at the same time. Long-term following of education laws and regulations may step into the heart of the educated and become the guidance of personal conduct rules. Correct, future-oriented education laws and regulations may make the new generation have good behavior guidelines unknowingly, which provides more excellent genes for the development and construction of the social. The problems of education laws and regulations will procrastinate social development and construction. It is too late when we can see such potential impact. Based on the importance of studying ethical issues on education laws and regulations, this article attempts to research from the perspective of pedagogy, explore the ethical issues, and make recommendations accordingly.This dissertation is composed of the following six segments:Chapter one, introduction. This chapter tries to tell the feasibility of the study through the discussion of the research background. It describes the related research process at home and abroad with word frequency method, so as to form the research framework eventually.Chapter two, concept definition and interpretation. Means of regulating relationships among human beings can be divided as follows:laws and statutes, rules and regulations, ethics and morality. Moralitys can be divided into tow parts. When the rules are generally accepted by most of the people, and they are considered as the rules with punishment, rules can be called Tao or ethics. When rules are accepted by oneself and are deep in his heart to adjust his personal behavior, they can be called personal morals or personal virtue. The analysis of concepts brings the following conclusions. First, the various means of adjusting relationships among people does not exist in isolation. They have intricate, mutually supportive relationship. Second, the division of so many means of adjusting relationships among people is not clear divided. Ethics originates in morality and penetrates through laws and statutes, which plays a guiding role. Ethics distills from morality, and morality may also be internalized in personal mind, becoming the personal conduct. Third, there is inextricable relationship between laws and ethics, also between regulations and ethics. There must be the guidance of ethics in laws and regulations. Also, with the steps of time, there must be ethical issues in laws and regulations, which is not suitable for our modern society.Chapter three, ethical principles of legislation and specialties of educational legislation. The establishment of education laws and regulations should be in accordance with the universal principles of legislation and ethics. To be distinguished from other laws and regulations, educational legislation should obey specific ethical characteristics of education. This chapter collects and states some ethical principles, home and abroad, so as to explore the unique ethical principles of educational legislation.Chapter four, historical description of legal ethics relationship in the education activities. Describing the historical development of these nine relations of educational laws and regulations, the dissertation analysis the ethical evolution of relations among legal subjects on the era of the development process.Chapter five, analysis of ethical issues of contemporary education laws and regulations. By sorting out the data of related concepts and historical developing steps, this chapter tries to explore the ethical issues of education laws and regulations. There are three parts involved in educational activities-school, family and society. These three parts can be subdivided into nine kinds of relations (teacher-student, teacher-teacher, teacher-school, student-school, teacher-parent, school-family, school-government, school-off-campus educational institution, government-off-campus educational institution). Based on the results of questionnaires, the author looks for the achievements and identifies the problems in this chapter, trying to excavate ethical issues both possible existing and factual existing.Chapter six, visions. This chapter gives the suggestions basing on the results of questionnaire and issues-analysis in chapter five. With the development of era background, the establishment and operation of educational laws and regulations have to follow both principles of legislation, ethical principle of education and educational regulation.Since there might be ethical issues on the education laws and regulations, the author tries to give the following principle recommendations. First, the formulation and implementation of education laws and regulations should be involved of the encouragement of collectivism, adhereing to the principle of mutual benefit, and restrictively recognizing personal interests. Second, the process of education legislation should involve education experts, scholars and teachers, who can give suggestions based on the unique regularity and characteristics of education. Third, we need to fully respect the reality and moderately advance when formulating the education laws and regulations, so as to provide a broad framework for educational activities. There must be progressivism containing in education laws and regulations, which could play a strong leading and exemplary role. Fourth, the principle "giving priority to education" should be followed during the establishment and implementation of education laws and regulations. We should explore the balance between the authority of education laws and the priority of educational activities.Basing on these principles above, in accordance with the nine kinds of ethical relationship, the author gives suggestions from three levels (the ideal level, the principle level and the rule level). The legislature and the education sector should encourage some acts which have highly oriented function. The content on this level should fully embody the progressive ethical principle of education laws and regulations. The content on principle level should focus on the combination of the ideal and the reality. They are built on the basis of social reality and analysis questionnaire. The content on rule level is the bottom line of the ethical relationship in education laws and regulations. They always direct at the operational level, and are accompanied by penalties. They can be observable, operable and assessable. Above all, this research tries to provide some vision and ideas for the ethical problems of the education laws and regulations through the designation of three levels and nine kinds of educational relationship.