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dc.contributor.advisorShapiro, Joan Poliner
dc.creatorRenehan, Cynthia Lee
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-02T14:46:50Z
dc.date.available2020-11-02T14:46:50Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.other864884731
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/2229
dc.description.abstractThis case study investigated the ethic of the profession, one of the four ethical frameworks used for ethical decision-making in education. Typically, this line of research is applied to school administrators; however, this investigation extended this research to teacher leaders by examining their daily practice. Out of a pool of thirty-six respondents, nine teachers were chosen to participate in the study. These teacher leaders were employed in urban, exurban, and suburban school districts, with experience levels varying from three to thirty-three years. Participants were required to complete the following: the Self-Assessment to Assess Readiness for Leadership, creation of personal code of ethics, and the creation of professional code of ethics. An in-depth interview to discuss the codes, and clashes between codes was conducted, as well as a second interview to address an ethical dilemma identified by the participants. Categorical analysis was used to recognize recurring themes. A conceptual model of the decision-making process was developed to explain the phenomena observed in these data. In addition, recurring themes were identified through analysis of the interview data. Themes included a prevailing concern for fairness, student welfare, educational equality, safety, and student discipline. When responding to critical events that triggered ethical dilemmas, these participants habitually used their personal and professional codes of ethics to determine a course of action. Participants exhibited a sophisticated decision-making approach which moved participants past the reliance on one ethical frame of justice, critique, or care, into the use of multiple paradigms to solve ethical dilemmas. In the final analyses, the ethic of the profession was demonstrated by these nine teacher leaders through reflection and reliance on personal and professional codes of ethics, and by placing students at the center of the ethical decision-making process.
dc.format.extent200 pages
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTemple University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofTheses and Dissertations
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dc.subjectEducation, Administration
dc.subjectClashes Between Codes
dc.subjectCodes of Ethics
dc.subjectEthic of the Profession
dc.subjectEthical Decision-making
dc.subjectEthical Paradigms
dc.subjectTeacher Leadership
dc.titleTeacher Leaders: Demonstrating the Ethic of the Profession
dc.typeText
dc.type.genreThesis/Dissertation
dc.contributor.committeememberCaldwell, Corrinne A.
dc.contributor.committeememberSchifter, Catherine
dc.contributor.committeememberDuCette, Joseph P.
dc.contributor.committeememberPartlow, Michelle Chaplin, 1941-
dc.description.departmentEducational Administration
dc.relation.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/2211
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dc.description.degreeEd.D.
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