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Moving ethics to the center of an education curriculum.
Every day administrators face challenges that are loaded with moral issues. Mediating conflicts, weighing budget priorities, taking action toward a failing student or employee, defining admissions criteria, facing the media after a hot-button incident--ethics is at their heart.
Yet the programs that train educational administrators place ethics at the margin as an add-on or elective. Curricula centered on technical skills like facilities management perpetuates old assumptions that go unstated and unchallenged. Students absorb hierarchical values passed down from the days when virtually all administrators were white males.
How we teach tomorrow's administrators profoundly affects the future of education. Ignoring moral issues has moral implications.
"It's much easier to make a schedule than to examine the ethical implications of generating that schedule," said Dr. Kelly McKerrow, associate professor in educational administration at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. "Just as technology cannot be confined to computer courses, ethics cannot be tacked on as an elective."
Her feminist model for an administrative curriculum puts ethics at the center and moves technical skills to the margins. She spoke at the 16th annual Women in Educational Leadership Conference in Lincoln NE in September.
Condescension
Administrators may believe their work is about teaching and learning, but that's not how they're trained or what they discuss at conferences.
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