CHAPTER TWO SUMMARY

Chapter Two Summary



CHAPTER TWO SUMMARY

Introduction

The Chapter two provides certain coherent ideas and rational concepts derived from the experiences of school leaders. On the bases of these experiences; ethics of responsibility has been structured. The chapter emphasized on taking hands-on complex responsibilities of educational leadership instead of simple responsibility like to prevent harm

Al Athur's Story

The chapter presented the need of ethical grounds of studying responsibility in educational leadership by reviewing the case of Al Athur, the principal of Roosevelt Middle School. The case spots the regions of responsibilities as; naming the problem, identifying responsibilities to prevent harm, identifying the foundations of responsibilities as human being, educator, administrator and citizen administrator, identifying the reasons that boost the sense of responsibility, making clear about the responsibilities, shifting the attention from preventing harm to more analytical issues for example authentic and quality learning for all students and developing healthy relationship among the community members, and distinguishing the possibilities.

The Grammar of Responsibility

Starrat provides the grammar of responsibility through reflecting the observations of different writers. The first pattern described the historical scriptures on responsibility which were based mainly on the viewpoints of past. The review of different literatures of the first pattern held responsible to the leader for his ostensibly conducted past actions. The second pattern in the chapter discusses the moral responsibility. Here the leader is held morally responsible for any contradictory social impacts on present situation due to modernization, innovations, inventions and technology developments.



The Responsible Educational Leader

Starrat examined the impact of responsibility on the nature of leadership in education as moral work. According to him the leaders must be morally responsible in conformity of the second pattern for the sense of understanding of who actually the leader is, for what he is responsible, to whom he is responsible and for what he is responsible.

The educational leader is responsible as a human being who takes decision with other human beings. It enables the educational leader to experience empathy. He puts himself in someone's shoes to understand his state of mind, his feelings, his emotions and his situation. As in the fore warded practical example of Al Arthur; he understood the problem of newly Mexican arrived students. In this matter he could take possible actions in the form of posing sanctions and delegating responsibilities to the teachers and students for helping those Mexican arrived students. The educational leaders being responsible as human ...