By Tricia Bertram Gallant
For those that think within the promise of upper schooling to form a greater destiny, this can be a time of remarkable melancholy. tales of scholars on a regular basis dishonest of their periods, admissions officials bending the principles for VIPs, school fudging examine information, and presidents plagiarizing appear extra rampant than ever prior to. If these linked to our associations of upper studying can't withstand moral corruption, what desire can we have for a moral society?
In this edited quantity, better schooling specialists and students take on the problem of figuring out why moral misconduct happens within the academy and the way we will be able to handle it. the quantity editor and contributing authors use a platforms framework to investigate moral demanding situations in universal practical components (e.g., trying out and admissions, educating and studying, study, fundraising, spectator activities, and governance), highlighting that misconduct is formed via either members and the contexts within which they paintings, examine, and reside. the amount argues compellingly for schools and universities to make ethics a strategic, institutional precedence. better schooling researchers, scholars, and practitioners will locate this quantity and its program of empirical learn, real-life examples, and illustrative case experiences to be an inspiring and appropriate learn.
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