What's an excellent applied ethics text with good scenarios and cases?
November 27, 2019 12:03 PM Subscribe
I'd like to shift from a heavily discipline-specific applied ethics text to one that has better general cross-context applicability. Further details below...
I teach on a doctoral program that started life (before I was hired) as an Ed.D. track for educational leadership at the K-12 level. It morphed into something that was equally a higher-education-focused program, and then over the past years, it has changed once again to accomodate leaders from healthcare management and business in general. Over time, students from outside education have become the lion's share of new enrollments.
One of the two texts I use to teach a class called "Leadership Ethics" is very K-12 focused. The first text is a general social-science-ethics primer (Cahn's Exploring Ethics), and it introduces the fundamental ethical frameworks of deontology, consequentialism, and virtue/value ethics nicely. I like and want to retain that book. The second is Shapiro & Gross's Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent times. This is the problematic book. I like the introduction of more complex, hybrid ethical frameworks (ethic of critique, ethic of the profession), and I *love* the detailed cases and scenarios it proposes, but for the majority (more like 75% of the students), the context isn't applicable to their lives. I've taught around it, asking students to alter cases to make them more relatable, but that's not enough.
So what I'm looking for is a text (OERs are also welcome) that offers a broad approach to ethics in the workplace (with leadership as perhaps a minor theme).
I've used the Markkula Center's material to patch holes, but I'd like one single, unified, broad-spectrum resource if one exists. Anything wonderful out there I'm missing?
I teach on a doctoral program that started life (before I was hired) as an Ed.D. track for educational leadership at the K-12 level. It morphed into something that was equally a higher-education-focused program, and then over the past years, it has changed once again to accomodate leaders from healthcare management and business in general. Over time, students from outside education have become the lion's share of new enrollments.
One of the two texts I use to teach a class called "Leadership Ethics" is very K-12 focused. The first text is a general social-science-ethics primer (Cahn's Exploring Ethics), and it introduces the fundamental ethical frameworks of deontology, consequentialism, and virtue/value ethics nicely. I like and want to retain that book. The second is Shapiro & Gross's Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent times. This is the problematic book. I like the introduction of more complex, hybrid ethical frameworks (ethic of critique, ethic of the profession), and I *love* the detailed cases and scenarios it proposes, but for the majority (more like 75% of the students), the context isn't applicable to their lives. I've taught around it, asking students to alter cases to make them more relatable, but that's not enough.
So what I'm looking for is a text (OERs are also welcome) that offers a broad approach to ethics in the workplace (with leadership as perhaps a minor theme).
I've used the Markkula Center's material to patch holes, but I'd like one single, unified, broad-spectrum resource if one exists. Anything wonderful out there I'm missing?
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posted by humbug at 7:50 PM on November 27, 2019