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The chapter outlines a learning process and a developmental content to the ethical preparation of school leaders. The process begins with personal reflections and group discussions about ethical values embedded in one’s personal biography which have been influential in participants’ efforts to process ethically challenging situations in their work. The process transitions to explorations within formal ethical perspectives by which participants learn to analyze ethical problems in their normal everyday work experiences from a multidimensional ethical framework of justice, care, and critique. The gradual appropriation of this ethical framework opens the door to the deeper consideration of the moral good that the profession of education intends to promote – the good embedded in school learning about one’s membership in the worlds of culture, nature, and society. This exposes aspiring and experienced educational leaders to the essential ethical leadership of the teaching/learning process itself.
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For a more thorough discussion of the commingling of the ethics of justice, care, and critique, see Starratt (1991).
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Starratt, R.J. (2010). Developing Ethical Leadership. In: Davies, B., Brundrett, M. (eds) Developing Successful Leadership. Studies in Educational Leadership, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9106-2_3
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