Mahoney

My primary area of research is the practical and professional ethics of teachers and administrators. This research has evolved into designing and teaching courses in ethics for the Department of Leadership and Administration, and it has resulted in several articles and four books.

My first book, An Organizational, Social Psychological, and Ethical Analysis of School Administrators' use of Deception, published in 2003, examines the role of organizational dynamics in shaping ethically compromising situations.

My second book, Ethics and the School Administrator: Balancing Today's Complex Issues, published in 2006, helps administrators understand and more effectively deal with the ethical compromises that arise from the complex organizational and interpersonal demands of their leadership roles.

My third book, Ethics in the Classroom: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice, published in 2008, helps show educators how they might choose among ethical approaches to decision-making as they face the difficult choices they make every day.

Another recent book is Overload and Collapse in the K-12 System, published in 2008. This is an edited book my colleague, Al Fein, and I designed to help get the profound messages of many of our Canadian students' research findings into the hands of educators and policy makers.

My current research extends into the practical and professional ethics of other categories of professional educators.