Educational leadership : key challenges and ethical tensions / Patrick Duignan

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Contemporary leaders and leadership under the spotlight -- 2. Key challenges for educational leaders -- 3. Leadership challenges as tensions -- 4. A framework for analyzing tensions -- 5. Values and ethics in decision-making -- 6. A method for ethical decision-making -- 7. Shared and distributed leadership in schools -- 8. Why we need capable educational leaders -- 9. Why we need authentic educational leaders -- 10. Forming capable and authentic educational leaders.

Educational Leadership is a major research book on contemporary leadership challenges for educational leaders. In this groundbreaking new work, educational leaders in schools, including teachers, are provided with ways of analysing and resolving common but complex leadership challenges. Ethical tensions inherent in these challenges are identified; tools for their analysis presented and explained; and clear and practitioner-focused guidelines for ethical decision making, in the form of ten practical steps, recommended. Included in this discussion is a jargon-free description and explanation of ethical theories and principles. Written by a leading researcher in the field, and recipient of the Australian Council for Educational Leadership Gold Medal for excellence, Educational Leadership: Key Challenges and Ethical Tensions is an important book that provides a practical framework for analysing ethical tensions and presenting, explaining, and applying ethical concepts and theories to real-life situations in practitioner language.