School Leaders and Ethical Decision-Making

School Leaders and Ethical Decision-Making - "This paper emphasises that context is integral to any analysis of the complex lattice of factors that provide significant ethical challenges for school principals. Each school is contextually specific and the role of the principal is to negotiate that context. I do not seek to provide theoretical answers to the question of how school diversity affects ethical decision-making but suggest that increasing diversity elaborates the context within which school leaders make ethical decisions and judgments. It is proposed that, in the current dynamic environment, ethical commitment by the principal can usefully be conceptualised within a framework of contextual understanding." (Dr Jennie Billot, Unitec, New Zealand)