文档介绍:anization and
Professional Development
A thought-provoking textbook written for Higher Education and Student Affairs Mas-
ters and PhD programs, anization and Professional Development focuses on
the framing of critical issues anizational practice, the gaps between moral beliefs
and actions, and improving equity anizations. This breakthrough text seeks
to revolutionize how we understand ethical practice. It can be used as a text aniza-
tion, Leadership, and Professional Practice courses seeking to integrate moral leadership
and reflective practice. Unlike the majority anization textbooks currently avail-
able, which lack a social-contextual understanding of moral issues and social justice,
this text encourages the use of action research to inform and support change in profes-
sional practice.
Readers will find the pedagogical exercises useful for reflecting on goals, examining
practices, and testing new intervention methods. Reflective assignments are suggested
for readers to help them engage in a process of reflective analysis of professional
practice.
This book can also be used in graduate programs across professional fields including
Educational Administration and Business. Practicing professionals and academics who
wish to reflect on the gaps between their moral values and their actions in work situ-
ations will find this text informative and useful. The chapters include fundamental and
insightful guidance for reflection on the topics raised and discussed.
Edward P. St. John is Algo D. Henderson Collegiate Professor of Education at the
University of Michigan’s Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education.
anization and
Professional Development
Integrating Moral Reasoning and
Reflective Practice
Edward P. St. John
Algo D. Henderson Collegiate Professor,
Center for the Study of Higher and
Postsecondary Education,
University of Michigan
First published 2009
by Routledge
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