ABSTRACT
This chapter provides definitions of ethical leadership and the important balance of attending to school children's academic and social wellbeing, while adhering to professional ethical standards. When considering normative ethical frameworks in education, moral philosophy provides a broad backdrop to situate and better understand the distinct theoretical perspectives of ethical and moral leadership within educational administration. A justice perspective, or what has been referred to in the literature and practice within the profession as an "ethic of justice", is clearly expressed in the work of K. A. Strike, E. J. Haller, & J. F. Soltis. Students and practitioners of educational leadership must see the moral situations and ethical dilemmas they face in the context of varying degrees of turbulence. The emphasis and preoccupation with bureaucratic scientism and management perspectives is counterbalanced with the importance of value, moral, and ethical bases for educational leadership decision making.
