Creating the Ethical School.After all the corporate scandals in the past year, there is a renewed interest in teaching ethics in management Ethics and ethical behaviour are the essential parts of healthy management. From a management perspective, behaving ethically is an integral part of long - term career success. Wide access to information and more business opportunities than in the past makes ethics a need in modern and leadership courses. As school administrators and teachers know, teaching ethics in the pre-collegiate environment is equality important and valued. Ethical awareness, ethical reasoning and ethical behavior must be part of a school's culture for all stakeholders. Creating the Ethical School is co-authored by Jonas F. Soltis, a Columbia University Columbia University, mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the eight Ivy League institutions. professor specializing in applied ethics Applied ethics is a discipline of philosophy that attempts to apply 'theoretical' ethics, such as utilitarianism, social contract theory, and deontology, to real world dilemmas. in education, and Bongsoon Zubay, head of the Berkeley Carroll School The Berkeley Carroll School is an independent, nonsectarian, coed day school, enrolling about 750 students from pre-kindergarten through high school. Berkeley Carroll School is located in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn at three locations: 181 Lincoln Place, 701 Carroll in Brooklyn, N.Y. Using a variety of case studies based on actual school events, the authors effectively engage readers to consider research and practice in understanding ethical decision Real life ethical decisions are studied in sociology and political science and psychology using very different methods than descriptive ethics in ethics (philosophy). Not ethics proper making. Their work emerged after a three-year, co-curricular ethics project in which groups of students, teachers, administrators, parents and trustees participated in dialogues prompted by dozens of ethical dilemmas at every grade level. What is particularly useful about this book is that each case is written to demonstrate that ethical inquiry and decision-making is a complex process. The case studies could easily be used for small or large group professional development sessions as well as classroom discussion to help K-12 students better understand the ethical principles that underlie school rules and policies. The two appendices at the conclusion of the book are appropriate for school leaders. The first presents a developmental view of how preschool to high school students process and articulate what's right and wrong. The final appendix contains the specific ethical standards adopted at the Berkeley Carroll School. They can easily serve as a model for other schools. (Creating the Ethical School: A Book of Case Studies by Jonas F. Soltis and Bongsoon Zubay, Teachers College Press, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , N.Y., 2005, 256 pp., $30 hardcover) Reviewed by Henry Kiernan Superintendent, Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District is the school district of the Long Island hamlets of Bellmore and Merrick, New York. 5,999 students, grades 7-12, attend the Bellmore-Merrick secondary schools. , Bellmore, N.Y. |
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