1 Values and their place in educational leadership

Question 1

Because a significant portion of the practice in educational administration requires rejecting some courses of action in favour of a preferred one, values are generally acknowledged to be central to the field. (???, ?????)

Answer 1

Because a significant portion of the practice in educational administration requires rejecting some courses of action in favour of a preferred one, values are generally acknowledged to be central to the field. (Willower, 1992)

Question 2

Values are conception, explicit or implicit, distinctive of an individual or characteristic of a group, of the ________ which influence the selection from available modes, means and ends of action (?????, 2003)

Answer 2

Values are conception, explicit or implicit, distinctive of an individual or characteristic of a group, of the desirable which influence the selection from available modes, means and ends of action (Begley, 2003)

Question 3

Hodgkinson’s three categories of values

Answer 3

1. No rational basis (transrational) 2. Rational basis 3. No rational basis (subrational)

Question 4

Hodgkinson’s three categories of values

Answer 4

1. No rational basis (transrational) -fundamental principles 2. Rational basis - values based in (i) consensus (ii) consequences 3. No rational basis (subrational) - values based in preferences 1991

Question 5

In the school leadership literature, there is a pronounced tendency to adopt the word ethics or moral as an ________ term for anything values-related. (????, ????)

Answer 5

In the school leadership literature, there is a pronounced tendency to adopt the word ethics or moral as an umbrella term for anything values-related. (Begley, 2003)

Question 6

In the school leadership literature, there is a pronounced tendency to adopt the word ethics or moral as an umbrella term for anything values-related … . In contrast, other scholars … reserve the term ethic or principles for a particular and very special category of __________ values and employ the word values as a generic umbrella term for all forms of ‘conceptions of the desirable’. (Begley, 2003)

Answer 6

In the school leadership literature, there is a pronounced tendency to adopt the word ethics or moral as an umbrella term for anything values-related … . In contrast, other scholars … reserve the term ethic or principles for a particular and very special category of transrational values and employ the word values as a generic umbrella term for all forms of ‘conceptions of the desirable’. (Begley, 2003)