Ethical school leadership / Spencer J. Maxcy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxcy, Spencer J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Professional ethics.

Teachers.

School administrators--Professional ethics.

School administrators.

Moral education.

Teachers--Training of.

Physical Description:

viii, 211 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2002.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Ethics, Leadership, and Good Schools 1

Chapter 2 Standards and Ethics 19

Chapter 3 The Ethical Leader 45

Chapter 4 Becoming an Ethical Educational Leader 71

Chapter 5 Justice and Fairness in Decision Making 91

Chapter 6 The Caring Attitude in Ethical Leadership 103

Chapter 7 Science and Ethics 117

Chapter 8 Practical Ethics Strategies 141

Appendix A The Case of the Phony Resume 161

Appendix B The Case of the Undeserved Scholarship 173

Appendix C The Case of Unintended Harm 179

Appendix D The Case of the Gun in the High School 183

Appendix E The Case of the Dirty Birds 187

Appendix F The Case of Academic Freedom 193.

Notes:

"A ScarecrowEducation book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203) and index.

ISBN:

0810843870

0810842777

OCLC:

48557581