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What are values? Where do our values come from? How do our values make a difference in education? For educational leaders to achieve distinction in their practice, it is vital to establish clear personal values rather than reacting to the implicit values of others. This engaging book guides readers in considering the values they bring to their task and the values they intend to promote. Values for Educational Leadership promotes critical thought and constructive analysis about underlying values that involve: Aims and moral purpose in education Individual qualities in educational leadership Vision in education School ethos and culture Schools as an educational communitiesInviting reflection using valuable case studies and work-through activities, this resource is ideal for anyone working toward professional qualifications such as NPQH and is invaluable for educators aspiring to excellence in educational leadership.
Educational Aims and Moral Purpose
Educational Aims and Moral Purpose
This chapter will look at the goals that leaders in education may be aiming at. We shall consider what can be said in general terms about the aims of education. We shall also ask in what sense we can expect educational leaders to be motivated by a sense of moral purpose, and we shall recognise that leaders have to pursue such a purpose within constraints imposed from outside the school itself.
This chapter will help you to:
- understand the value of explicit reflection on educational aims;
- be aware of a variety of commonly held views about the purposes of education;
- be aware in particular of a variety of moral or political aims in education;
- understand the idea of moral purpose in ...
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