As early years practitioners, it is important to remember that ethics is not something that we occasionally do, but is a way of being. In her work (2009), Professor Sarah Banks discusses how we need to reconsider the role of ethics in our practice; that we should stop viewing it as a tick-box exercise and instead recognise it as something that permeates all of our actions. Throughout our working life, we should ‘be’ ethical professionals, not ‘do’ professional ethics.
Ethics is most often seen as a set of rules or guidance, very often related to formal behaviours, or to research, but it is actually much more than that. Ethical practice is about acting in a ‘good’ or a ‘right’ way, and as such applies to all of us.
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