Integrating values and ethics into post secondary teaching for leadership development: Principles, concepts, and strategies

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of moral literacy as it applies to leadership development and the processes for promoting moral literacy through teaching in colleges and universities.

Design/methodology/approach

The ethics of authenticity and moral agency in education settings are proposed as a means for promoting and achieving moral literacy among teachers and students.

Findings

Instructional principles for the integration of values and ethics into post secondary teaching are outlined and several successful techniques are illustrated.

Research limitations/implications

The use of values and ethics frameworks as content is contrasted with their application as process.

Practical implications

Examples of applications are included in the form of teaching activities such as the “value audit”, “personal inventories”, “problem interpretation protocols” and the “use of case studies”.

Originality/value

A theoretically grounded justification for incorporating moral literacy frameworks in university level teaching combined with practical instructional strategies.

Citation

Begley, P.T. and Stefkovich, J. (2007), "Integrating values and ethics into post secondary teaching for leadership development: Principles, concepts, and strategies", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 45 No. 4, pp. 398-412. https://doi.org/10.1108/09578230710762427