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617.552.1961

EDUCATION

ED D Graduate School of Education, University of Illinois, 1969

Licentiate in Sacred Theology, Weston College 1967

M ED  Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, 1963

MA Philosophy, Boston College, 1960

BA Boston College, 1959

EXPERTISE/INTERESTS

School renewal in Catholic school systems; instructional supervision; building learning environments in schools; ethical leadership; the moral character of teaching and learning; human resource development; philosophy of education.

HONORS/PUBLICATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Due out in 2013 Sergiovanni, T.J.,  Starratt, R.J., & Cho, V.  Supervision: A redefinition. Ninth Edition.  New York: McGraw-Hill.  (Complete manuscript submitted, October 4, 2012)

Cultivating an ethical school.  New York: Routledge. 2012 

Ethical tensions in the daily work of Principals: Finding a still point for leadership. The Journal of Educational Administration and Foundations, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 39-53. 2012  

The Drama of Schooling / The schooling of Drama. Reprinted as Volume 56 of the Routledge Education Library. First printed in 1990. New York: Routledge. 2011 

Refocusing educational leadership: Foregrounding human development throughout the work of the school. New York: Routledge. 2010 

The moral character of academic learning: Challenging the exclusivity of the reigning paradigm of school learning. In A. Hargreaves, A. Lieberman, M. Fullan, & D. Hopkins, (Eds.). 

Second International Handbook of Educational Change (pp. 631-645).  New York & London: Springer. 2009 

Pragmatics, politics, and moral purpose: The quest for an authentic national curriculum. (co-authored with M. Bezzina and C. Burford) the Journal of Educational Administration, 45-56. 2009 

Ethical Leadership. In B. Davies (Ed.), The Essentials of School Leadership (2^ndEdition), (pp. 74-90.) London: Sage. 2008 

Democracy and Education reconsidered: A continuing leadership agenda. In P. Jenlink (Ed.), Democracy and Education reconsidered (pp. 52-70).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers. 2008

Supervision as Moral Action, in M. Boutet (Ed.),  L’ Accompagnement Concerte des Stagiaires  en Enseignement, (pp.  153-169).  Quebec City: University of Quebec Press. 2008

A neglected dimension in the professional ethics of educational leadership: Cultivating the moral character of teaching and learning. University of British Columbia Educational Leadership Research eJournal Issue 11,2007

Leading a community of learners; Learning to be moral by engaging the morality of learning.  Educational Management, Administration and Leadership35 (2), 165-183. 2006 

Moral issues in a test-driven accountability agenda:  Challenges for learning-centered leadership In A. Danzig (Ed.). Learning centered leadership (pp275-290). Mahwah, NJ: Laurence Erlbaum. 2006   

(with T. J. Sergiovanni) Supervision: A redefinition (eighth edition).  New York: McGraw-Hill. 2005 

Standards of ethical learning and teaching.  In S. Gordon (Ed). Standards forinstructional supervision (pp. 49-62), Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education. 2005   

The spirituality of presence. In C. M. Shields, M.M. Edwards, & A. Sayani,(Eds.). Inspiring practice: Spirituality and educational leadership (pp. 67-84),Lancaster, P: Pro>active Publications.2005. 

Cultivating the moral character of learning and teaching: A neglected dimension of educational leadership. School Leadership and Management 25(4), 399-411.2005. 

Ethical leadership. In B. Davies (Ed.), The essentials of school leadership (pp. 61-74).  London: Sage. 2005. 

Foreword. In C. Sugrue (Ed.), Passionate principalship: Learning from the life histories of school leaders (pp. xi-xiii) London: Routledge-Falmer. 2005. 

Responsible leadership. Educational Forum, 69 (2), 124-133. 2004. 

Leadership of the contested terrain of education for democracy. Journal of Educational Administration 42 (6). 724-731. 2004.

Captains of the ships of schools: An allegory about moral leadership during times of turbulence.  The School Administrator (September). 2004.  

Ethical leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.2004. The dialogue of scholarship.  Educational Administration Quarterly 40 (2), 259-267. 2003. 

A perspective on ethical educational leadership: An ethics of presence.  In F.C.Lunenburg & C.S. Carr (Eds.), Shaping the future: Policy, partnerships, and emerging perspectives (pp 98-111). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Education. 2003. 

Opportunity to learn and the accountability agenda.  Phi Delta Kappan, 85 (4), 298-303. 2003.  Centering educational administration: Cultivating meaning, community, andresponsibility. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 2003.   

Instructional supervision, in the Encyclopedia of Education. Second Edition. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. 2003. 

Democratic leadership theory in late modernity: An oxymoron or ironic possibility?  In P. Begley and O. Johansson (Eds.), The ethical dimension of school leadership,  Boston: Kluwer Press. 2002.

Community as Curriculum.  In K. Leithwood & P. Hallinger (Eds.), Second international handbook of educational leadership and administration.  Part One (pp. 321-348). Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002.

With Thomas Sergiovanni, Supervision, a redefinition.  Seventh Edition.  New York: McGraw-Hill. 2002.

Sprituality of leadership.  In L. Langlois & C. Lapointe (Eds.) LeLeadership En Education: Des Regards Multiple, Une Meme Passion (pp, Editions La Chenelliere/McGraw-Hill. 2002.

With Gail Furman, Leadership for democratic community.  In J. Murphy (Ed.)The educational leadership challenge: Defining leadership for the 21^stCentury, (pp. 105-133).  Yearbook for the National Society for the Study of Education, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2001.

"Democratic leadership theory in late modernity: An oxymoron or ironic possibility?" International Journal of Leadership in Education, (4) 4, 333-352. 2000. 

Liturgy as curriculum.  Catholic education: A journal of inquiry and practice, 4 (1), 57-71. 2000.   

Grounding moral educational leadership in the intrinsically moral enterprise of learning.  In W.G. Cunningham and P.A. Cordeiro, (Eds.), Educational administration: A problem-based approach (pp. 208-209), Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 2000.   

Foreword. In J. Glanz & L.S. Behar-Horenstein (Eds.) Paradigm debates incurriculum and supervision: Modern and postmodern perspectives, pp. ix-xiii.  Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey. 1999.    Moral dimensions of leadership. In P.T. Begley & P.E. Leonard (Eds), The values of educational leadership, pp. 22-35. London: Falmer Press. 1998.

Grounding moral educational leadership in the morality of teaching and learning.  Leading and Managing 4(4), 243-255. 1998.

Supervision as moral action (with Marie Howells). In G. Firth and E. Pajak

(Eds.), Handbook of research on school supervision,  p. 987-1005. New York:Macmillan. 1998.   

Supervision: A redefinition. (With Thomas J. Sergiovanni) Sixth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Paper Presentations  (back to 2000)

Starratt, R.J. (April, 2011). The geography of moral development over the life-span: Leadership cultivation of moral development of adults and youth within the schooling agenda. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.

Starratt, R.J. (April 2011). Preparing transformative educators for the work of leading schools in a multicultural, diverse, democratic society. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research, Association, Denver, CO.

Starratt, R. J. (2010, November). The moral character of teaching and learning. The Landsdown Lecture at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.

Starratt, R. J. (2010, May). Three ethical perspectives for leading schools. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Manitoba Association of School Superintendents, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Starratt, R. J. (2010). Should ethics be included in the mission of the school? Why? Why not?  Keynote address at the Annual  International UCEA Conference on Values and Leadership, Umea Sweden, September, 2010.

Starratt, R.J.(2010). Three ethical perspectives for leading schools.  Annual meeting of the Manitoba Association of School Superintendents, May, 2010, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Starratt, R.J. (2009) The Moral completion of the process of knowing and its necessarily humble beginnings.  Keynote presentation at the Annual Conference of the Center for the Study of Leadership and Ethics, Pennsylvania State University, Oct 1-3.

Starratt, R.J. (2009)  Developing ethical leaders for the work of schooling. Paper delivered at the Annual Conference of the Center for the Study of Leadership and Ethics, Pennsylvania State University, Oct. 1-3. 

Starratt, R.J. (2008) Metaphors that influence understandings of learning and teaching.

Paper delivered at the Annual Conference of the Australian Council for

Educational Leaders, Melbourne, Australia, October, 2008.

Starratt, R.J. (2008) Working in the boiler room of democracy: A Deweyan view ofteaching and learning academic subject matter. Invited presentation of the John

Dewey Lecture Series, Annual Conference of The Association of Supervision and

Curriculum Development, New Orleans, March 2008.

Starratt, R.J. (2007)  Supervision and the moral character of learning and teaching.  Apaper presented at the annual meeting of the Council of Professors of Instructional Supervision, Staten Island, New York, October.

Starratt, R.J. (2007) ). Exploring spirituality in educational leadership through ethical frameworks. A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, April 9-13, 2007.

Starratt, R.J. (2006 a). The Moral agency of educational leaders. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Leadership and Ethics in Education. Victoria, British Columbia, September 2006

Starratt, R.J. (2006b) Cultivating the moral character of learning: A neglected dimension of educational eadership.  Keynote address at the Commonwealth Council on Educational Administration and Management Conference,  Nicosia, Cyprus, October, 2006.

Starratt, R.J. (2006c) Cultivating the moral character of learning: A neglected dimension of  educational leadership. Paper presented at the International Summit on Educational Leadership, Boston, October, 2006.

Starratt, R. J. (2006d). Exploring spirituality in educational leadership through ethical frameworks. A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the University Council for Educational Administration, San Antonio, Texas, November, 2006.

Starratt, R.J. (2005a). Authentic academic learning as grounding education for democratic community and social justice. Paper delivered at the Annual Conference of the University Council on Educational Administration, Nashville, November, 2005.

Starratt, R.J. (2005b). Foundations of moral agency: Implications for learners, curriculum, pedagogy, and leadership. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the University Council on Educational Administration, Nashville, November, 2005.

Starratt, R.J. (2005c). Grounding moral agency in the academic curriculum of the school. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the University Council on Educational Administration, Nashville, November, 2005.

Starratt, R.J. (2005d). The ethics of learning for a thick democracy. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the University Council on Educational Administration, Nashville, November, 2005.

Starratt, R.J.(2005e). Authentic academic learning as grounding education for         democratic community and social justice. Invited lecture at St. Patrick's            College, Dumcondra, Dublin, Ireland, November, 2005.

Starratt, R.J. (2005f). Grounding moral agency in the academic curriculum of the school: An unattended leadership challenge. Paper presented at the 10t^h Annual Values and Leadership Conference, Penn State University, October, 2005.

Starratt, R.J.(2005g). Cultivating authenticity in both cognitive and human development: A new perspective on moral educational leadership. Keynote address at the annual Values and Leadership Conference, Penn State University, October, 2005.

Starratt, R.J. (2005h). Foundations of moral agency. A paper presented at the annual conference of the Center for the Study of Values in Educational Leadership, Penn State, October 2005.

Starratt, R.J. (2005i). The moral character of learning: A neglected area in educational leadership. A paper presented at the Fall conference of the Center for the Study of Values in Educational Leadership, Penn State, October, 2005.

Starratt, R.J. (2005j). Foundations of moral agency. Invited paper at the Moral Literacy Colloquium sponsored by the Willower Center for the Study of Leadership and Ethics at Penn State University, April 22-23, 2005.

Starratt, R.J. (2004)  Ethics as a necessary component of the knowledge base in

educational administration”.  A paper presented at the Annual conference of the

University Council on Educational Administration, Kansas City, November 2004.

Starratt, R.J. (2004). The ethics of learning: An absent focus in the discourse on educational leadership.” Keynote Address, Annual conference of Values and Leadership in Education, Barbados, October, 2004

Starratt, R.J. Building a learning community. A paper presented at the University of

Alberta, Department of Educational Policy Studies, October 2004.

Starratt, R.J. (2004). The ethics of learning: An exploratory study. A paper presented at the University of Alberta, October 2004.

Langlois, L. & Starratt, R.J. (2004). Patterns in the decisional process of superintendents around complex ethical problems.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA. April 12-16, 2004.

Starratt, R.J. (2004). Cultivating ethical knowledge as the basis of professionalism in teaching. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA. April 12-16, 2004.

Starratt, R.J. (2004). Exploring the meaning and significance of the spirituality of presence for educational administrators. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA. April 12-16, 2004.

Starratt, R.J. (2004). Supervision and the moral responsibility intrinsic to teaching and learning. Paper presented at the Business meeting of the Special Interest Group of AERA on Instructional Supervision. Annual Conference of AERA. San Diego, CA. April 12-16, 2004.