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Publication Date: 2004
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Moral Leadership in the 21st Century: Everyone Is Watching--Especially the Students
Quick, Paul M.; Normore, Anthony H.
Educational Forum, The, v68 n4 p336-347 Sum 2004
Educational leaders continually must be vigilant about their actions as they speak volumes about the values that the leader supports. It is impossible for an educational leader to take an action without generating some comment about how things should be done--which by definition is moral action. What's more, everyone is watching--especially the students. This article explores leadership relationships, interrelationships, and interdependence--and how administrative "moral leadership" rests with the institution's leader. First, it examines the concept of systems thinking to determine how relationships, support structures, and decisions made by school leaders impact the entire school-especially the students and the community at large. Second, it explores and furthers our understanding of moral leadership models by synthesizing concepts in the literature and offers a new paradigm of moral leadership for educational leaders in the 21st century.
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Moral Values, Leadership Responsibility, Social Values, Educational Environment, School Culture, Integrity, Ethics, Justice, Systems Approach, Democracy, Principals, Democratic Values, Role Models
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