Educational Leadership and Moral Literacy

The Dispositional Aims of Moral Leaders

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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What makes a moral person moral? Who decides what morality means? What makes leadership practice moral? In today’s schools, what stands as moral leadership? These are questions that reflect the complexity integral to the calculus of human morality, especially in a world that is defined daily by its variant meanings of morality, its acts of immorality. The school as an educational setting is or should be a decidedly moral center of the society; it is the natural intersect between the family and the multi-dimensional nature of public life. Educational Leadership and Moral Literacy addresses these questions, situating the reader in a conversation that examines the meaning and nature of moral leadership through the lens of moral literacy and the dispositional aims of moral leadership in educational settings. The contributing authors extend an argument that the work of leader educators and practitioners alike must continuously be re-articulated around the dispositional aims aligned with a moral, democratic education. Educators must be concerned with developing the moral, intellectual, and aesthetic dimensions of the educational leader as a “moral person.”

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-03-18
Mått161 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781610487269

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PrefaceIntroduction: Leadership, Morality, and Moral Leadership in Today’s SchoolsPatrick M. JenlinkSection I: Moral Leadership for Today’s SchoolsChapter 1 – The Moral Nature of Educational Leadership: Examining the Dispositions of Moral LeadersPatrick M. JenlinkChapter 2 – Moral Literacy—A Requisite for Moral LeadershipPatrick M. JenlinkSection II: Moral Dispositions and the Moral Nature of LeadershipChapter 3 – Moral Commitment: Scholar–Practitioners Making Choices With Strength of PurposeCatherine York AmonettChapter 4 – Moral Respect and the School AdministratorFrederick J. Black, Jr.Chapter 5 – Moral Authenticity as a Disposition of the Scholar-PractitionerCynthia LindleyChapter 6 – The Face of the Morally Responsible Scholar-PractitionerOrlando VargasChapter 7 – Moral Reasonableness and the Scholar–PractitionerWalter BeversChapter 8 – A Message to Educational Leaders: The Value of Moral CaringDonna PorterChapter 9 – Moral Critique: A Critical Pragmatic View of Scholar-Practitioner Leadership Toby NixChapter 10 – Moral Integrity: The Leader’s Path to WholenessNathaniel Session Chapter 11 – Moral Courage: The Road “Less Traveled By”Denice McCormick MyersChapter 12 – Examining Moral Justice and Its Implications for Equity And Access in the Pursuit of Democratic SchoolingStefanie BushChapter 13 – Moral Humility: A Dimension of Scholar-Practitioner LeadershipBrian NicholsChapter 14 – Moral Selflessness and the Scholar-Practitioner: Non-Random Acts of Deliberate KindnessLaurie Stone RogersChapter 15 – Moral Perseverance: Managing Decisions, Taking Risks, and Accepting ResponsibilityAngela WrightSection III: Moral Leadership: ReflectionsChapter 16 – The Scholar–Practitioner as Moral Being: Perspectives on Educational Leadership and Moral DispositionsKaren Embry Jenlink Chapter 17 – Coda: The Leader as Moral Architect: Ensuring the Moral Architecture of EducationPatrick M. JenlinkAbout the Editor and Contributing Authors

This substantive work on the contemporary topic of educational leadership and moral literacy engages leaders in the significant task of developing beyond competent leaders into moral architects. This lens advances the field of educational leadership where the role of leaders as moral agents for today’s schools has gradually come to the fore. Those who prepare educational leaders will also benefit from how the contributors to this volume peel back the onion on the topic of morality, exposing it in relation to such crucial areas as dispositions, literacy, climate/culture, and selfhood.