Ethics in Educational Leadership Programs

An Expanding Role
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-8039-6150-0
Verlag: Corwin

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 212 g

In recent years, students and practitioners of educational administration have expressed concern over the increasing number and complexity of ethical dilemmas confronting school leaders. The authors of this book examine various university programmes implemented by 42 educational administration departments, designed to discover how to equip students to deal with such challenges.

Ethics in Educational Leadership Programs will prove invaluable reading for those concerned with the nature of ethics and values in school administration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beck, Lynn G.

Murphy, Joseph

Murphy, Joseph F.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Forewords - Patrick B Forsyth and Donald J Willower
Conceptions of Ethics in Educational Administration
The Place of Ethics
A Historical Perspective
Ethics in Preparation Programs Today
Addressing Ethics in Academic Courses
Laying a Foundation for Dialogues on Ethics
A Proposal
Afterwords - William P Foster and Robert J Starratt

Über Autor(innen)

Murphy, Joseph F.
Joseph F. Murphy is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair and associate dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education.

In the public schools, he has served as an administrator at the school, district, and state levels, including an appointment as the executive assistant to the chief deputy superintendent of public instruction in California. His most recent appointment was as the founding president of the Ohio Principals Leadership Academy. At the university level, he has served as department chair and associate dean.

He is past vice president of the American Educational Research Association and was the founding chair of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). He is co-editor of the AERA Handbook on Educational Administration (1999) and editor of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) yearbook, The Educational Leadership Challenge (2002).

His work is in the area of school improvement, with special emphasis on leadership and policy. He has authored or co-authored 18 books in this area and edited another 12. His most recent authored volumes include Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement (2002), Leadership for Literacy: Research-Based Practice, PreK-3 (2003), Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement (2005), Preparing School Leaders: Defining a Research and Action Agenda (2006), and Turning Around Failing Schools: Lessons From the Organizational Sciences.

Beck, Lynn G.
Lynn G. Beck is Dean of the School of Education at Pacific Lutheran University. Her research and teaching focuses on administrative ethics, principalship, and leadership preparation.