The Study Of The Value And Approach Of Principal Moral Leadership In Primary And Secondary Schools

"Equity and excellence" is the new trend of the development of basic education in the twenty-first century. With China’s compulsory education into "after the nine-year compulsory education "era, people need better basic education and primary and secondary schools are required to provide each student with equal, high-quality, suitable education. Knowledge society has brought new challenges to the development of these schools. However, the traditional tool principal leadership emphasis on technical rationality, the order and unity of teaching work, but ignore the student diversity and differences, the value of rational leadership and the emotional needs of the members of school organizations. In the era of personal growing awareness of the gradual disintegration of the traditional authority, the principal should change the style of leadership and shift the moral leadership from the traditional instrumental leadership.In this article, with the research methods of the literature, interview and case analysis, did the author propose these existing problems of the principal leadership which mainly contained the value guide utilitarian that ignored the students’ right to education and equality of educational opportunities; school education qualitative that ignored the development of students’ personality; school cultural superficialness that ignored the humane care to the staff and students. The reasons contain the utilitarian and tools for education, the bureaucratic of school organization, and the weak consciousness of principal leadership. Thus, using school moral leadership by Thomas Sergiovanni as the theoretical framework, the author tried to implement the value of the principal moral leadership and construct the model of its accomplishment as the basis on the concept of educational fair, curriculum and culture construction of China’s primary and secondary school.