TY - JOUR AB - This article proposes the concept of an ethic of community to complement and extend other ethical frames used in education (e.g. the ethics of justice, critique, and care). Proceeding from the traditional definition of ethics as the study of moral duty and obligation, ethic of community is defined as the moral responsibility to engage in communal processes as educators pursue the moral purposes of their work and address the ongoing challenges of daily life and work in schools. The ethic of community thus centers the communal over the individual as the primary locus of moral agency in schools. The usefulness of the ethic of community in regard to achieving the moral purposes of schooling is illustrated with the example of social justice. The author concludes that the ethic of community is a vehicle that can synthesize much of the current work on leadership practices related to social justice and other moral purposes of educational leadership. VL - 42 IS - 2 SN - 0957-8234 DO - 10.1108/09578230410525612 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/09578230410525612 AU - Furman Gail C. PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - The ethic of community T2 - Journal of Educational Administration PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 215 EP - 235 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -