Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education

This textbook was developed in response to an increasing interest in ethics, and a growing number of courses on this topic that are now being offered in educational leadership programmes. It is designed to fill a gap in instructional materials for teaching the ethics component of the knowledge base that has been established for the profession. The text has several purposes: first, it demonstrates the application of different ethical paradigms (the ethics of justice, care, critique and the profession) through discussion and analysis of real-life moral dilemmas that educational leaders face in their schools and communities; second, it addresses some of the practical, pedagogical and curricular issues related to the teaching of ethics for educational leaders; third, it emphasizes the importance of ethics instruction from a variety of theoretical approaches; and finally, it provides a process that instructors might follow to develop their own ethics unit or course. Part One provides an overview of why ethics is so important, especially for today's educational leaders, and describes a multiparadigm approach essential to practitioners as they grapple with ethical dilemmas. Part Two deals with the dilemmas themselves. Ethical dilemmas written by the authors' graduate students bring readers face-to-face with the kinds of dilemmas faced by practising administrators in urban, suburban and rural settings in an era full of complexities and contradictions. Part Three focuses on pedagogy and provides teaching notes for the instructor. The authors discuss the importance of self-reflection on the part of both instructors and students, and model how they thought through their own personal and professional ethical codes, as well as reflecting upon the critical incidents in their lives that shaped their teaching and frequently determined what they priviliged in class.

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Part 1 Practice and Paradigms in the Study of Ethics: Multiple Ethical Paradigms and the Preparation of Educational Leaders in a Diverse and Complex Era; Viewing Ethical Dilemmas Through Multiple Paradigms; Figure 1 - Diagrammatic Representation of the Ethic of the Profession. Part 2 A Multi-Paradigm Approach to Analyzing Dilemmas Categorized as Paradoxes: Individual Rights/Community Standards; Traditional Curriculum/Hidden Curriculum; Personal Codes/Professional Codes; The American Melting Pot/The Chinese Hot Pot; Equality/Equity. Part 3 Teaching as Scholarly Work: To the Instructor - Ethics, Ourselves and Our Pedagogy.

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