Modern-day curriculum leaders too often receive shallow trainings that promise to “fix” schools, however, ready-made solutions to the complex social, moral, and political challenges that face today’s schools do not exist. Curriculum Leadership provides those who lead curriculum discussions with a humanistic foundation that embraces the morality of curriculum. Null focuses on ten virtues he contends are essential for good curriculum making: humility, courage, compassion, justice, wisdom, practical wisdom, perseverance, faith, hope, and love. Each chapter begins with a philosophical, psychological, and, in some cases, theological discussion of that virtue before turning to two role models who serve as moral exemplars for that virtue. Readers will gain a richer understanding of how these virtues improve our lives personally and strengthen our institutions collectively. Only through the formation of people who possess these ten virtues can our institutions of curriculum weather the storm that is upon us.
This book provides those who lead curriculum discussions with a humanistic foundation that embraces the moral aspect of curriculum decision making. In doing so it provides much needed guidance for today’s curriculum leaders.
