Multiple Ethical Paradigms and the Preparation of Educational Leaders in a Diverse and Complex Era

Foster (1986) expressed the seriousness and importance of ethics in educational administration when he wrote: “Each administrative decision carries with it a restructuring of human life: that is why administration at its heart is the resolution of moral dilemmas” (p. 33). In this paradoxical, unstable, and ethically polarized era, we began to think that there was a need to offer differing perspectives to help educational leaders solve authentic dilemmas that they frequently face in their schools and in their communities.