Education, Policy and Ethics

Mike Bottery is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Hull, UK. He has published eight books on issues of educational leadership, values and sustainability, including The Challenges of Educational Leadership (2004) and Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World (2016).

• The changing global and policy context; the strategic response; the public/private debate; management strategies; return of community values; impact of equality and citizenship; McDonaldization; role of the professional; new ethics of leadership; ethics of inclusion.

"This is an intelligent, passionate and, at some points, contestable argument that British education policy...must be rectified through the (re)discovery of certain values...Several detailed points excite and invite dispute...The very least this book will do is to conscientise, to raise awareness of the problems....this is a good book which rightly stirs the reader to trenchant and dangerous reflection." --International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2002