Ethical School Leadership

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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. This work provides a systematic approach to resolving 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 should find knowledge, dispositions, and performance criteria by which to evaluate case studies of moral-ethical leadership. This text provides an up-to-date treatment of the subject. It's aim is to provide encouraging, practical thinking about the moral-ethical problems facing our school leaders today and should be of interest to school principals, teachers, school board members and students of education.

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Spencer Maxcy's book is an important read. Maxcy's cry for greater attention to ethical school leadership needs to be heard. School leaders as well as those who prepare school leaders will find his book informative. * Journal of Educational Administration *

Author Bio

Spencer J. Maxcy is professor of education, Louisiana State University. He is the author of several books including Democracy, Chaos, and the New School Order, Postmodern School Leadership: Meeting the Crisis in Educational Administration and Educational Leadership: A Critical Pragmatic Perspective.