Educational Leaders' Decision-Making: Presence, Influence, and Strength of Personal Values, Morals, and Ethics

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dc.contributor.authorStrickler, Mark Rosenen
dc.contributor.committeecochairTwiford, Travis W.en
dc.contributor.committeecochairMallory, Walter D.en
dc.contributor.committeememberPowell, Susan T.en
dc.contributor.committeememberTripp, Norman Wayneen
dc.contributor.committeememberEller, John F.en
dc.contributor.departmentEducational Leadership and Policy Studiesen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:09:52Zen
dc.date.adate2009-05-05en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:09:52Zen
dc.date.issued2009-04-01en
dc.date.rdate2012-03-30en
dc.date.sdate2009-04-17en
dc.description.abstractThe study investigated the degree to which the personal values, morals, or ethics of educational leaders enter into their decision making processes. A review of the literature suggests that leadership preparation programs for educators do not adequately equip aspiring administrators for the ethical challenges in a global society. The scholarship of John Dewey and Donald Willower in the field of educational leadership laid the groundwork for the dual methodology pilot study conducted with high school administrators and retired superintendents. Retired division superintendents from Virginia were interviewed to yield a database of thematic strands for developing ethical construct statements. Demographic data was collected in the first portion of the survey. In the second portion of the instrument, respondents indicated strength of relevance for each of twenty valuation statements applied to each of the four ethical scenarios. The third section ended by respondents assigning one of four value labels to each of the ethical scenarios. Implications for further research include early administration to members of new leadership preparation cohorts for comparison at program completion.en
dc.description.degreeEd. D.en
dc.identifier.otheretd-04172009-091459en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04172009-091459/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/26940en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartStrickler_Dissertation_April17_09.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectEducational Leadershipen
dc.subjectValuesen
dc.subjectDecision-makingen
dc.subjectEthicsen
dc.subjectMoralsen
dc.titleEducational Leaders' Decision-Making: Presence, Influence, and Strength of Personal Values, Morals, and Ethicsen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineEducational Leadership and Policy Studiesen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Educationen

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