Etiskt förhållningssätt & styrningsreaktioner : Kvalitativ studie om lärare och lärarstudenters etiska förhållningssätt och styrningsreaktioner till informationsplikten

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to investigate the ethical attitudes of teachers and teacher students, based on administrative ethics and personal ethics, regarding the implementation of the duty to inform. Additionally we aim to explore what the respondents consider acceptable behavior towards the duty to inform, based on the governance reactions of loyalty, protest, obstruction, and exit. To achieve this we have designed the study using a qualitative method, where semi-structured interviews have been used to collect empirical data. Utilizing Lennart Lundquist's theory on the ethical attitudes of civil servants and governance reactions, we have employed it as a theoretical framework to analyze the respondents' answers. The interviews indicate that the respondents predominantly hold an administrative ethical approach towards the implementation of the duty to inform, although there are a few respondents with a personal ethical approach. Regarding governance reactions, the majority of respondents consider loyalty, protest, obstruction, and exit as acceptable behaviors towards the duty to inform. However, two teacher students express a differing opinion, stating that exit is not an acceptable behavior. Additionally, two teachers were unable to provide a specific answer regarding obstruction and exit as acceptable behaviors towards the duty to inform.