Ethical Decision-Making in Educational Leadership for Crisis Management: A Scenario-Based Textbook for K-12 and Higher Education Systems

Ethical Decision-making in Educational Leadership employs a pragmatic theoretical model of social and environmental relations to teach leaders to approach ethical decision-making through case-based contemporary examples.Taking a holistic and multi-dimensional perspective, this book demonstrates how aspiring educational leaders can navigate volatile, complex, uncertain and ambiguous (VUCA) futures. Part I introduces a social-ecological model of leadership, accounting for the complex relations between people and their environments in education settings.It defines ethical leadership for educational leaders in VUCA and global risk environments, addressing the impact on education of today's challenges including climate change, pandemics, geopolitical instability and political polarization.In this context it theorizes ethical dilemmas and ethical decision-making in leadership, setting out various leadership styles, skills and strategies for adaptive educational leadership. Part II includes s