Ethical educational leadership in turbulent times : (re)solving moral dilemmas / Joan Poliner Shapiro, Steven Jay Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Joan Poliner.

Contributor:

Gross, Steven Jay.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership--Moral and ethical aspects.

Educational leadership.

Physical Description:

x, 212 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, [2008]

Summary:

This book is designed to assist educational leaders in the ethical decision-making process. Educational leaders not only face moral and ethical decisions regarding their classrooms, schools, school districts, and education institutions, but they must consider the complexities and threats that impact their communities. In this unstable era of war, terrorism, natural disasters, accountability, and high stakes testing, this process is particularly daunting.

Theoretically, this book is based on Gross's Turbulence Theory and Shapiro and Stefkovich's Multiple Ethical Paradigms of justice, critique, care, and the profession. The authors clearly explain these concepts and demonstrate how they can work together to assist leaders in dealing with challenging situations. Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent Times: Introduces the concept of Turbulence Theory, Presents the Multiple Ethical Paradigms of justice, critique, care and the profession, Provides authentic ethical dilemmas-recently derived from and field tested in doctoral level courses-to be analyzed using Turbulence Theory and the Multiple Ethical Paradigms and to engage readers in applying these concepts to practice, Assists educational leaders in addressing and sometimes solving difficult dilemmas. This book is intended for use in a range of educational leadership, educational administration, and teacher education programs that prepare both educational leaders (administrators) and lead teachers.

Contents:

Understanding the theoretical framework

Overview of the book : case contributed by Noelle Jacquelin

The multiple ethical paradigms

Turbulence theory

(Re)solving ethical dilemmas

Security versus civil liberties : cases contributed by Susan H. Shapiro, Kelly D. Harbaugh, Mary Figura, Lisa Marie Waller

Power versus accommodation in curriculum, instruction, and assessment : cases contributed by Stacy Aronow, James M. O'Connor, Robert Murphy, Corrine Caldwell

Accountability versus responsibility : cases contributed by Rita Becker, Cynthia Renehan, Troy Wiestling, Kendall Glouner

Community standards versus individual rights : cases contributed by Melissa Sterba, Christopher Lake, Shaun Little, Ellen Henderson Brown

Equality versus equity : cases contributed by Albert Catarro, Jr., Jamie Shuda, W. Douglas Zander, Yvonette Marshall

Personal vision versus authority : cases contributed by Terry McDonald, Alison Staplin, Maureen Linton, Emily Gross

Rules, regulations, and policies versus individual needs and concerns in student teaching : cases contributed by David X. Fitt, Joseph P. DuCette, Sara Becker

Introducing the new deel

Control versus democracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-192) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780805856002

0805856005

OCLC:

123284839