Authors: Spencer J. Maxcy
ISBN-13: 9780810842779, ISBN-10: 0810842777
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: May 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Typically, educational leadership is not considered a moral-ethical undertaking. But educators face a dismaying array of moral-ethical challenges from academic dishonesty to sexual harassment every day in our nation's schools. Ethical School Leadership provides a systematic approach to resolving these school-based moral-ethical issues. It offers real world moral-ethical dilemmas, alternate theories of ethical decision-making, and differing philosophies of leadership. Present and future school leaders will find knowledge, dispositions, and performance criteria by which to evaluate case studies of moral-ethical leadership. This book provides an up-to-date treatment of the subject without arcane terminology or abstract argument. Its aim is to provide encouraging, practical thinking about the moral-ethical problems facing our school leaders today and will be of interest to school principals, teachers, school board members and students of education.
Focusing on the ethical aspects of school administration, this book offers a systematic approach to resolving dilemmas and addressing ethical problems. It describes realistic situations, outlines alternative theories of ethical decision-making, and relates them to different theories of leadership. Chapters focus on general principles. Appendices contain case studies concerning fraudulent resumes, academic dishonesty, unintended harms, weapons in schools, obscenity, and academic freedom. Macy teaches at Louisiana State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Acknowledgments | ||
Ch. 1 | Ethics, Leadership, and Good Schools | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Standards and Ethics | 19 |
Ch. 3 | The Ethical Leader | 45 |
Ch. 4 | Becoming an Ethical Educational Leader | 71 |
Ch. 5 | Justice and Fairness in Decision Making | 91 |
Ch. 6 | The Caring Attitude in Ethical Leadership | 103 |
Ch. 7 | Science and Ethics | 117 |
Ch. 8 | Practical Ethics Strategies | 141 |
App. A | The Case of the Phony Resume | 161 |
App. B | The Case of the Undeserved Scholarship | 173 |
App. C | The Case of Unintended Harm | 179 |
App. D | The Case of the Gun in the High School | 183 |
App. E | The Case of the Dirty Birds | 187 |
App. F | The Case of Academic Freedom | 193 |
References | 197 | |
Index | 205 | |
About the Author | 211 |