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This 50 page paper is a comprehensive study of the issues of inclusion, ethics, morals and educational leadership. The introduction discusses leadership, educational leadership, the moral dilemmas in leadership and the intersection of various forces. The Rationale and Purpose section is short and comments on why the study should be conducted and the purpose of the study. The literature review has a number of subheadings that include: legislation and regulations that govern special education; the principles underlying IDEA; ethics (justice, care, critique, professionalism); the history of ethics and morals in special education, which also brings the ethic of choice and the ethic of character into the discussion and a discussion of the overrepresentation of certain minority groups identified as special education students; the effects and results of inclusion according to research studies; the roles and responsibilities of school administrators and how they have changed, what is needed to establish an ethical school and an inclusive school; and the final section discusses the moral and educational dilemmas school administrators face. A great deal of data are included. bibliography lists 28 sources.
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50 pages (~225 words per page)
File: MM12_PGinclpr.rtf
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it is and the leader must be able to let go of the status quo. This may be even more important for school leaders because it is in the schools
that future leaders are educated. In other words, todays school leader must be able to look objectively at the myths that support carrying on business as in the past (The
University of Melbourne). As one writer put it: "It has to be a leadership grounded in a new anthropology, an understanding of the human condition as both feminine and masculine,
as multicultural, as both crazy and heroic, violent and saintly, and as embedded in and therefore responsible to nature" (The University of Melbourne). An essential component in the new leadership
is the moral dimension, which is a topic that has gained more popularity in recent years (The University of Melbourne). In relating this to schools: "Educational leadership is seen as
a moral exercise in that educational leaders should focus not only on efficient and effective use of resources, but also on what is worthwhile and what is worth doing (values
of quality, equity and choice)" (The University of Melbourne). Educational leaders make decisions every day that have moral and ethical undertones (The University of Melbourne). In fact, McCrea and Ehrich
commented that educational leaders are faced with ethical and moral dilemmas every day (1999). At these times the educational leader must rely on their sense of professionalism and on the
ethic of critique. McCrea and Ehrich suggest that educational leaders rely on a caring heart in addition to their ethic of professionalism (1999) Lashway also commented on the many ethical
dilemmas educational leaders face: "Principals experience such dilemmas on a daily basis. . . Having moral obligations to society, to the profession, to the school board, and to students, they
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