A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OFETHICAL ISSUES IN STUDENTS-TEACHERS RELATIONSHIP IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The relationship between students and teachers in the academic environment at all level is indeed a critical one and as such, has ever been commended or lamented for, when it is positive or otherwise. Students leave their biological parents at home to meet their academic parents at school (a sort of temporal home) both of whom should maintain a consistent mutual relationship. This relationship encourages acquisition of knowledge, sense of humanism, growth of intellectuality, tenderness of heart, parent-children cordiality and finally should be seen as a way of continuing God’s creation and an avenue through which God’s divine purpose should be fulfilled by nurturing their intellect to see far and be able to differentiate between good and bad. Though, it is so unfortunate that sometimes, neither students nor teachers see it this way and this has been a major source of negative attitudes like inhumanity and maltreatment, carelessness and “I don’t care life†and waywardness found among both in the mentees (students) and the mentors (teachers). As a consequence, it has denied “intellectuality†which is the gift of the Nurturing Nature to the nurtured nature. Therefore, this paper will expose, from how it sees it, the relationship experienced between the students and the teachers in Nigeria and how it has marred the educated or intellectual quality and maximization of human potency. It will, as well, bring to light, the possible causes and solutions to this so that it will significantly stand as a beginning point to understanding students-teachers relations as it will critically and inductively employ expository and evaluative methods.

 

Keywords: Ethics, Students, Teachers, Nigeria