Leadership and Applied Ethics in Education: A Mencian Approach
摘要：
Applied ethics is focused on issues in private or public life that are subject to ethical judgments.Based on how conflicts between personal and professional values in recent legal cases (e.g., Keeton vs. Anderson-Wiley, 2010; Ward vs. Wilbanks, 2010) have interfered with ethical decision making,a question raised in applied ethics is whether integrating personal values and professional ethics in ethical decision making affects the morality of ethical decisions. The purpose of this chapter is to use the three-part division of traditional normative ethical theories identified by researchers at Brown University for making ethical decisions to describe and explore consequentialist and deontologist forms of ethical reasoning for deciding matters of morality in education. A literature search identified published frameworks that define the components of ethical decision making. Using these frameworks,a new framework, called the personal and professional values-integrated framework, is constructed.Consideration is given to areas and practices in the guidelines or rules for the process of forming ethical reasons and variations in reasons that are less easily accommodated by conventional ethical frameworks.The description of Will by the Chinese philosopher Mencius (371-289 BC) is used to gain insight into some of the implications of ethical decisions. It is demonstrated that leadership rules in education are realized by acknowledging the reasons for an action, and ethical decision making is defined as conforming to the criteria pertaining to these considerations as well as the professional conduct expected.
