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  • 28 - Defining Moral Responsibility for School Leaders in Times of Democratic Crisis

  • from Part III - Emerging Ethical Pathways and Frameworks
  • Edited by Sheron Fraser-Burgess, Ball State University, Indiana, Jessica Heybach, Florida International University, Dini Metro-Roland, Western Michigan University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education
    Published online:
    07 March 2024
    Print publication:
    14 March 2024, pp 597-618

  • Summary

    This chapter provides a rationale for, and outlines of, a democratic ethical framework for defining the moral responsibilities of school leaders working within political conditions of growing inequality, authoritarian state governments, and populist parental-rights movements. Facing these conditions, many leaders are tempted toward a position of liberal neutrality, a (false) removal of politics designed to minimize anger or retribution by parents and legislatures. A democratic, communal ethic orients the responsibilities of the school leader around democratic values, and the educational interests of the students. Moral responsibility requires leaders to embrace liberalism’s pluralism but also its strong egalitarianism, by educating students in both the hopeful and the tragic forms of knowledge and shared social existence that constitute the national democratic project.