Working Through Ethics in Education and Leadership : Theory, Analysis, Plays, Cases, Poems, Prose, and Speeches

ISBN-13: 9789460913747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 166 str.

James Kent Donlevy; Keith D. Walker

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This book, although targeting educational leaders, - teachers, school-basedadministrators, superintendents, board members, policy makers and educationstudents, is also addressed to those interested in the topic of ethics and thosewho seek the development of an ethical awareness and an appropriate intellectualprocesses when facing ethical issues. In particular, the book uses both deductive and inductive methods to provide thereader with a progressive experience of ethical discernment and analysis in orderto deal with and prepare the reader to address ethical issues in the public square- a task which requires that such decisions are rational, defensible, and clearlyarticulated.Institutional leaders diligence and integrity requires no less in attaining andsustaining the support of those they must lead in and through the institutionaldecisions and policies which effect constituents lives. Through the use of clearly stated definitions, the presentation of ethicalschools of thought, cases, original plays - within which readers areencouraged to engage while in a safe learning environment - and references topoems, movie, and video clips, the book provides a lively and challengingapproach to studying the topic of ethics.