Abstract

PEREZ GOMEZ, Raimundo Alonso; GAMBOA SUAREZ, Audin Aloiso  and  HERNANDEZ SUAREZ, César Augusto. Ethics in the formation of the mining engineer: social representations of educational actors. Tecnura [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.44, pp.201-208. ISSN 0123-921X.  https://doi.org/10.14483/udistrital.jour.tecnura.2015.2.a15.

This article shows the results of a qualitative research aimed to understand the social representations of teachers and students concerning ethics in an institution of higher education in Cúcuta, Colombia. The hermeneutic method was used which allowed to understanding a kind of knowledge that is built on dialogue, interaction, intersubjectivity and everyday life. The sample was intentional and formed by 25 students and 2 teachers. The study results show that for the educational actors ethics is related to the values of the subjects, which are learned from the environment. They relate ethics to society and define it as a science that gives people certain parameters that must be followed to comply with good actions within society.

Keywords : humanistic formation; moral practice; professional ethics; social representations.

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