ABSTRACT
It is not entirely unfair to assume that “professional ethics” refers to ethics for petty bureaucrats or middle management. It is also not altogether cynical to think that “school leadership” refers to a sense of leadership for people who are manifestly not leaders in any usual sense of the word, analogous to “school art” or “school fun.” In this chapter, the author considers the educational professions to be intellectual vocations, in the widest sense of those terms. It explores the questions of ethics in the simple and broad sense conveyed by the question “How should I live?” The chapter provides a list of the texts, assignments, and schedule in full detail, including evaluation and assessment expectations. A major portion of the author's class (e.g., lectures, discussions, and weekly papers) was divided amongst three interrelated approaches to ethics: metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics.
