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Jenlink ROWMAN&LITTLEFIELD Lanham•Boulder •NewYork•Toronto•Plymouth,UK PublishedbyRowman&Littlefield 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 10ThornburyRoad,PlymouthPL67PP,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2014byPatrickM.Jenlink Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Educationalleadershipandmoralliteracy:thedispositionalaimsofmoralleaders/EditedbyPatrick M.Jenlink. pagescm ISBN978-1-61048-726-9(cloth:alk.paper)--ISBN978-1-61048-727-6(pbk.:alk.paper)--ISBN 978-1-61048-728-3(electronic) 1.Educationalleadership--Moralandethicalaspects.2.Educationalleaders--Professionalethics.I. Jenlink,PatrickM.,editorofcompilation. LB1779.E362014 174'.937--dc23 2013046510 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ThisbookisdedicatedtoThomasD.Franks,Dean,retired,andProfessor Emeritus,StephenF.AustinStateUniversity.Asanadvocatefordoctoral studiesineducationalleadership,Dr.Franksexhibitedthemoraldisposi- tionsemblematicofamoralleader.Hisstrengthofmoralcharacterstood thetestandprevailed,hislegacyasfacultymember,chair,anddean speaksmorethanwords.Hewillforeverbeafriend,colleague,and mentor. Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface xiii Introduction:Leadership,Morality,andMoralLeadershipfor Today’sSchools 1 PatrickM.Jenlink SectionI:MoralLeadershipforToday’sSchools 13 1 TheMoralNatureofEducationalLeadership:Examiningthe DispositionalAimsofMoralLeadership 17 PatrickM.Jenlink 2 MoralLiteracy—ARequisiteforMoralLeadership 37 PatrickM.Jenlink SectionII:MoralDispositionsandtheMoralNatureofLeadership 51 3 MoralCommitment:Scholar–PractitionersMakingChoices withStrengthofPurpose 55 CatherineYorkAmonett 4 MoralRespectandtheSchoolAdministrator 69 FrederickJ.Black,Jr. 5 MoralAuthenticityasaDispositionoftheScholar–Practitioner 79 CynthiaLindley 6 TheFaceoftheMorallyResponsibleScholar–Practitioner 93 OrlandoVargas 7 MoralReasonablenessandtheScholar–Practitioner 103 WalterBevers vii viii Contents 8 AMessagetoEducationalLeaders 113 DonnaPorter 9 MoralCritique 123 TobyNix 10 MoralIntegrity 133 NathanielSession 11 MoralCourage 145 DeniceMcCormickMyers 12 ExaminingMoralJusticeandItsImplicationsforEquityand AccessinthePursuitofDemocraticSchooling 157 StefanieBush 13 MoralHumility 169 BrianNichols 14 MoralSelflessnessandtheScholar–Practitioner 181 LaurieStoneRogers 15 MoralPerseverance 189 AngelaWright SectionIII:MoralLeadership:Reflections 201 16 TheScholar–PractitionerasMoralBeing 203 KarenEmbryJenlink 17 Coda:TheLeaderasMoralArchitect 219 PatrickM.Jenlink AbouttheAuthors 227 Acknowledgments The idea for this book began with explorations of ethical and moral leader- ship in a doctoral course in ethics and philosophy of leadership I teach at Stephen F. Austin State University. Central to this idea was a concern for understandingthedispositionsofamoralleader.Asetofquestionsemerged: What makes a moral leader moral? What dispositions does a moral leader require in order to lead with moral conviction? What are the dispositional aims necessary to follow the moral obligation of leading a school? These questionshaveshapedmyworkforseveralyears. In the summer of 2009 a new doctoral cohort began its studies and with that new cohort I began to explore the nature of moral leadership from the perspectiveofmoraldispositions,identifyingthemoralnatureofeducational leaders.Situatingtheexplorationofmoralleadershipinmydoctoralcourses, as time passed the exploration became the focus of dialogues with doctoral studentsonseveraloccasions. Thedialoguesevolved,juxtaposingthepracticalworldinwhichdoctoral studentsworkedwiththemorephilosophicalunderpinningsofmoralleader- shipfoundinreadings.Throughoutthedialogues,acrossthesemesters,there was an emerging idea, perhaps born out of the exploration of those earlier questions.Theideatooktheformofaquestion:Whatwouldabookonmoral leadership look like that focused specifically on a set of moral dispositions? Fromthatpointforwardthebookproject,astheysay,becamereality. The book was conceived as being grounded in the reality that, as the schoolleaderisengageddailyinhis/herworkandbecomesdrawnmoreand moreintothecomplexitiesofleadershipthatisinasensethemoralarchitec- ture of the school, he/she will needto understandthe nature of what being a moral leader means. On a deeper level it requires the leader to have a high degreeofmoralliteracy.Aswell,itwasconceivedasanimportantinterface ix
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