Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education: Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Complex Dilemmas, Third Edition

The third edition of the best-selling text, Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education, continues to address the increasing interest in ethics and assists educational leaders with the complex dilemmas in today's challenging and diverse society. Through discussion and analysis of real-life moral dilemmas that educational leaders face in their schools and communities, authors Shapiro and Stefkovich demonstrate the application of their four ethical paradigms--the ethics of justice, care, critique, and profession. After an illustration of how the Multiple Ethical Paradigm approach may be applied to real dilemmas, the authors present a series of cases written by students and academics in the field representing the dilemmas faced by practicing educational leaders in urban, suburban, and rural settings in an era full of complexities and contradictions. Following each case are questions that call for thoughtful, complex thinking and help readers come to grips with their own ethical codes and apply them to practical situations. New in the Third Edition: An entire new chapter on privacy versus safety, including ethical issues such as strip searches, gang membership, cyber-bullying, and sexting. New cases infused into chapters on early childhood education, diverse student populations, and technology. Updates throughout to reflect contemporary issues and recent scholarship in the field of ethical leadership. Including teaching notes for the instructor stressing the importance of self-reflection, this text is easily adaptable for a variety of uses with a wide range of audiences. Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education is a valuable book for both aspiring and practicing administrators, teacher leaders, and educational policy makers.

Table of Contents:
Preface PART I: Practice and Paradigms in the Study of Ethics 1. Multiple Ethical Paradigms and the Preparation of Educational Leaders in a Diverse and Complex Era 2. Viewing Ethical Dilemmas Through Multiple Paradigms PART II: A Multiparadigm Approach to Analyzing Paradoxical Dilemmas 3. Individual Rights vs. Community Standards The Adult Fantasy Center Artificial Insemination The Trouble with Daddy’s Roommate The School of Hard Knocks 4. Traditional Curriculum vs. Hidden Curriculum AIDS and Age-Appropriate Education Vivisection: A Dilemma for the Undergraduate Classroom Culturally Responsive Curricula or an Ethical Dilemma? School Budget Blues and Copyright There’s No Place Like School 5. Personal Codes vs. Professional Codes Drunkenness or Disease? Rising Star or Wife Beater? After School Antics Job Sharing: Some Real Benefits When Teachers Fight 6. The American Melting Pot vs. the Chinese Hot Pot A Home for Marlon Parents’ Rights vs. School Imperatives Lost in Translation Responsibility and the Organization 7. Religion vs. Culture Buddhism and the Caring of Animals Ceremonial Rights Time off for Religious Services Religion and Social/Personal Contradictions 8. Equality vs. Equity When All Means All Black and White and Shades of Gray Access to Knowledge Academic Integrity in a Deaf Education Setting When Fundraising and School Policy Collide 9. Accountability vs. Responsibility The Secret Society of Test Givers Whose Best Interests: A Testing Dilemma Testing High Stakes Ability, Maturity, and Parental Perspectives A Merit-Based Scholarship 10. Privacy vs. Safety Keeping Children Safe: When is Enough, Enough? Punishment, Rehabilitation, or Mitigating Circumstances? School Discipline, Criminal Complaint, or Compassionate Intervention? New Bullying for the 21st Century: Cyber-Bullying in the Middle All’s Fair in Love and School PART III: Teaching as Scholarly Work 11. Ethics, Ourselves, and Our Pedagogy References About the Contributors Index

About the Author :
Joan Poliner Shapiro is Professor of Educational Administration at Temple University and Co-Founder of the New DEEL (Democratic Ethical Educational Leadership) movement. Jacqueline A. Stefkovich is Professor of Education Law and Ethics at The Pennsylvania State University and Co-Director of the UCEA’s D.J. Willower Center for the Study of Ethics and Leadership.

Review :
"A significant contribution by two of the most respected and thoughtful scholars in the field of educational ethics. Shapiro and Stefkovich provide the most coherent narrative to date on the significance of ethics for school leaders. No one does a better job of taking readers to the street level to teach the types of ethical issues which they will confront on the job."--Joseph F. Murphy, Frank W. Mayborn Chair of Education and Associate Dean at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University "The first edition of this reader-friendly, accessible text quickly became a classic and a widely-used resource for faculty and students. This edition builds on the strengths of the original and will continue to be an important resource for the field."--Gail Furman, Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, Washington State University Joan Poliner Shapiro recipient of Temple University's 2011 Great Teacher Award