Ethical Educational Leadership – Pressbooks

Faculty/Staff: Alana Hoare
Platform: Pressbooks
Site link (if applicable): https://leadershipethics.pressbooks.tru.ca
Services provided: Multimedia, PB training, copy editing and platform support
Description: 
Phase I: This OER book, developed in Pressbooks in 2024, focuses on contemporary ethical dilemmas, and explores multiple ethical leadership frameworks, including Indigenous leadership approaches and the ethics of care, community, critique, discomfort, justice, the profession, and self-care. Readers will investigate, analyze, and imagine alternative leadership approaches to addressing real-world cases by adopting a critical approach and multiple ethical leadership lenses.
Phase II of this project focuses on embedding open educational practices (OEPs) into the EDUC 5990 course on Ethical Concerns and Contemporary Issues in Higher Education Leadership. It includes the development of our award-winning open textbook (Ethical Educational Leadership: Untangling Ethical Dilemmas and Imagining Alternative Futures), and is supported by contributions from Indigenous knowledge keepers and an Elder, and the organization of an Ethical Dilemmas Roundtable Symposium (November 22, 2024) for MEd students and faculty. By addressing gaps in existing textbooks—such as outdated language and the lack of Indigenous perspectives—this initiative promotes critical dialogue, sustainable assignments, and the co-creation of open educational resources with the potential to inform policy and amplify student voices in higher education leadership.

We’re proud to share that this project received the 2025 OEGlobal Award for Excellence in the “What We Share: Open Assets Award” Category!