Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education

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This text addresses the growing interest in ethics within educational leadership programs, aiming to enhance instructional materials for teaching ethics in the field. It explores various ethical paradigms—justice, care, critique, and profession—through real-life moral dilemmas faced by educational leaders. The work highlights practical, pedagogical, and curricular issues in teaching ethics, emphasizing the significance of diverse theoretical approaches. It also offers a framework for instructors to create their own ethics units or courses. Part I outlines the importance of ethics for contemporary educational leaders and introduces a multiparadigm approach to navigating ethical dilemmas. Part II presents various dilemmas, including case studies constructed by graduate students that reflect the challenges encountered by administrators in diverse settings. Part III focuses on pedagogy, providing teaching notes and emphasizing the necessity of self-reflection for both instructors and students, illustrating how personal and professional ethical codes influence teaching. The Second Edition introduces new chapters on religious differences and the complexities of testing, along with additional dilemmas relevant to higher education. Updates throughout the text incorporate recent scholarship in ethical leadership. This work is adaptable for various audiences, serving as a valuable resource for university courses and a reference for a