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The ethic of community

Gail C. Furman (Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA)

Journal of Educational Administration

ISSN: 0957-8234

Article publication date: 1 April 2004

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Abstract

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.

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Furman, G.C. (2004), "The ethic of community", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 215-235. https://doi.org/10.1108/09578230410525612

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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