Educational Leadership and Moral Literacy

This substantive work on the contemporary topic of educational leadership and moral literacy engages leaders in the significant task of developing beyond competent leaders into moral architects. This lens advances the field of educational leadership where the role of leaders as moral agents for today’s schools has gradually come to the fore. Those who prepare educational leaders will also benefit from how the contributors to this volume peel back the onion on the topic of morality, exposing it in relation to such crucial areas as dispositions, literacy, climate/culture, and selfhood. -- Carol A. Mullen, professor of educational leadership, director of the School of Education, and associate dean for professional education of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech University
In the emerging test score cheating scandals and in a time with increasing privatization of public education in which profits are placed ahead of everything else, I cannot imagine a more timely book than Educational Leadership and Moral Literacy. Chapters on moral integrity and courage, along with an understanding of the nature of moral perseverance, are especially relevant to restore the ethic of public service for educational leadership which is on the verge of being erased. -- Fenwick W. English, R. Wendell Eaves Sr. Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Patrick M. Jenlink in his new book, Education Leadership and Moral Literacy: The Dispositional Aims of Moral Leaders, explains moral consciousness, obligation, judgment, understanding, and socialization in terms that leaders can understand and employ in their lived realities. He encourages educational leaders' metacognition and moral-cognition in order to actualize moral leadership. -- Beverly J. Irby, professor and associate dean, Academic Affairs, Marilyn Kent Byrne Endowed Chair for Student Success, Texas A&M University