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Ethical Leadership

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Ethical Leadership by Robert J. Starratt explores the deeply moral nature of educational leadership. Starratt challenges leaders in education to go beyond efficiency and embrace a commitment to high-quality learning for all students, grounded in virtues like proactive responsibility, authenticity, and supportive presence. Through a compelling narrative of a principal facing ethical dilemmas under state testing pressures, the book offers vivid illustrations and practical guidance for both practicing and aspiring educational leaders.
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This book is ideal for educational leaders, school administrators, and those training to lead in education who seek to integrate ethics into their leadership practice. It is also valuable to educators interested in the moral dimensions of schooling and learning.

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Shows educational leaders how to move beyond mere technical efficiency in the delivery and performance of learning. This work challenges educators to become ethical leaders who understand the learning process as a profoundly moral activity that engages the full humanity of the school community.

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In Ethical Leadership, Robert Starratt, one of the leading thinkers on the topic of ethics and education, shows educational leaders how to move beyond mere technical efficiency in the delivery and performance of learning. He challenges educators to become ethical leaders who understand the learning process as a profoundly moral activity that engages the full humanity of the school community.

Starratt explains that educational leadership requires a moral commitment to high-quality learning for all studentsβ€”a commitment based on three essential virtues: proactive responsibility; personal and professional authenticity; and an affirming, critical, and enabling presence to the workers and the work involved in teaching and learning. He clarifies how these virtues are essential for leadership in the pressure-cooker of high-stakes schooling.

He provides vivid illustrations by beginning and ending the book with a "morality play," the narrative of a principal who struggles to do the right thing for his students and teachers, as they are pressured and often punished by state-mandated tests. Starratt concludes by offering practical suggestions for working leaders, as well as preservice and inservice courses in educational leadership.

Series: Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education

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    In Ethical Leadership, Robert Starratt, one of the leading thinkers on the topic of ethics and education, shows educational leaders how to move beyond mere technical efficiency in the delivery and performance of learning. He challenges educators to become ethical leaders who understand the learning process as a profoundly moral activity that engages the full humanity of the school community....
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780787965648

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 July 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 224.0mm

Weight: 249g

Pages: 176

About the Author

THE AUTHOR

ROBERT J. STARRATT is professor of education at Boston College. Starratt taught at Fordham University after serving as principal and teacher at schools in Denver, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. The author of numerous books and articles, Starratt's work has focused on moral and ethical issues in education.

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