ABSTRACT
This chapter presents ideas and concepts focused around Starratt's notion of responsible leadership, and shows how media can stimulate discourse around social, cultural, economic, and political issues. It demonstrates how moral literacy is analyzed through the use of school teaching and university teaching. The chapter focuses on an educational leaders' ability to influence the cultural dynamics of a school through formal and informal means. It emphasizes skills that include open-mindedness, careful attention to others' views, considering ethical implications of decisions, learning how to evaluate strengths and weakness of own and others' positions, taking responsibility for actions and beliefs, and exercising fairness and respect for social and cultural differences. The chapter offers a series of reflective questions to help decipher how moral literacy is practiced on a daily basis for educational leaders.
