Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent Times: (Re) Solving Moral Dilemmas

by Joan Poliner Shapiro

This text is designed to assist educational leaders in the ethical decision-making process. Theoretically, it 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. Authentic ethical dilemmas are provided to be analyzed using Turbulence Theory and the Multiple Ethical Paradigms and to engage readers in applying these concepts to practice. The text 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.

Genres: Leadership, Education

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2007

Reviews

[Ann Pickens · Rating 5 out of 5]

As far as educational leadership books or for that matter leadership books in general go, this one was a really useful. The ideas were well developed, theoretical frameworks explained. Examples were concrete and authentic to modern public education. Very little of the leadership fluff that is in most leadership books.

[Alexis · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this for a graduate course on educational administration. It offers a range of thought-provoking scenarios for both teachers/instructors and admin in school settings to think about, i.e. a lockdown, teacher behavior(s), a suicide on campus, and a terrorist attack. It could've been more in-depth on how people involved in such scenarios might ethically respond to such scenarios; most of the book is focused on laying out the scenarios themselves. In contrast, it is an excellent conversation starter for teachers/admin looking with regards to professional development groups and/or coursework in education departments at colleges/universities.