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Ethical dilemmas faced by school leaders: What are they? What challenges do they raise? How can they be 'managed'?
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Cranston, NC, Ethical dilemmas faced by school leaders: What are they? What challenges do they raise? How can they be 'managed'?, Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership Change News, 9 November 2017, University of Hong Kong (2017) [Keynote Presentation]
Official URL: https://www.eduhk.hk/apclc/CentreNews_20171112_01....
Abstract
Increasingly, principals are leading their schools in changing and challenging contexts, such that their decision-making is now framed by greater intensification and complexity. This, coupled with the significant people focus of much of their work, means that many of their decisions have multiple response pathways and hence are best considered as dilemmas, some of which generate ethical challenges. These ethical dilemmas - described by one principal as the "bread and butter" of what we do - go to the very heart of the principal's values and beliefs, and indeed potentially to those of the school, the staff, and the parent and community body. Drawing on research with principals, this seminar will explore what we mean by ethical dilemmas, the sorts of challenges they generate and some suggested strategies for "managing" them successfully. A model will be presented that conceptualises the key forces at play and the "actors" involved as school leaders struggle to resolve these ethical dilemmas. Potential consequences and impacts on individuals and schools of particular resolution pathways are also noted.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Keynote Presentation |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | ethical dilemmas |
| Research Division: | Education |
| Research Group: | Specialist studies in education |
| Research Field: | Educational administration, management and leadership |
| Objective Division: | Education and Training |
| Objective Group: | Schools and learning environments |
| Objective Field: | Management, resources and leadership |
| UTAS Author: | Cranston, NC (Professor Neil Cranston) |
| ID Code: | 122409 |
| Year Published: | 2017 |
| Deposited By: | Education |
| Deposited On: | 2017-11-13 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-02-12 |
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