Poetics as an Aesthetic Examination of Ethical Dilemmas Through Moral Reasoning and Moral Imagination

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Abstract

The author examines, using educational poetics as a form of aesthetic inquiry, pedagogical practices that incorporate a poetics of leadership activity. Poetics involves a deepening understanding and sensitivity to ethical reasoning and moral imagination, and mirrors how events, actions, and the conduct of others can all express intellectual, aesthetic, and moral meaning. Poetics as an aesthetic mirror is examined in developing moral literacy and ethical frames of leadership. Four years of research data are reported.

Author

• Patrick M. Jenlink, Stephen F. Austin State University