This course focuses on the core areas of leadership – values, ethics, and professional identity. The goal of the course is to give participants ideas and instruments for the development process of their own professional identity as educational leaders. The rationale of this course is based on the fact that all educational leaders are also moral and ethical leaders and that all educational organizations are built on strong values and ethics. This course addresses the role of schools as educational and moral institutions, emphasizes the role of educational leaders in fostering moral codes and working as mediators in situations with contradictory values. Problem solving and decision making become easier for those who fully understand their own leadership identity and its ethical foundations.

An essential task for the students in this course is constructing and analyzing their own leadership philosophy.