Now What? Confronting and Resolving Ethical Questions: A Handbook for Teachers [Paperback]

Written by an educator and a national authority on ethics and featuring detailed real-life case studies, this volume outlines the relationship between ethical practices and school success.Written by an educator and a national authority on ethics and featuring detailed real-life case studies, this volume outlines the relationship between ethical practices and school success. This is a book that should set off needed conversations in every school and classroom and school board meetingand the dinner table. Sometimes I wanted to quarrel with the authors, and that's part of its genius. It always managed to provoke me to think and to engage with these dilemmas. Schools are full of situations fraught with ethical implications. The Mackenzies show us how to recognize moral dilemmas, employ guidelines for addressing them, and, by walking us through abundant yeasty cases, teach us how to resolve them on our own. A gift to educators, the educational profession, and to all who would behave ethically and professionally within it. Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I. Thinking About Ethics
1. Engaging in Ethics
2. Ethical Behavior: Some General Principles
Part II. Acting Ethically: Teachers and Their Constituents
3. The Essential Learning Relationship: Teachers and Students
4. Important Pieces of the Puzzle: Teachers and Parents
Part III. Acting Ethically: Teachers and Their Colleagues
5. Trust and Respect: Teachers as Colleagues
6. The Sum of the Parts: Teachers on Collaborative Teams
7. Clash of Philosophies: The School Faculty
8. Clashing Codes: Professional Communities of Teachers
Part IV. Acting Ethically: Teachers and Supervisors
9. Power and Authority: Teachers and Their Principals
10. The Teacher, Superintendent and School Board, and the Communl"