Abstract
In this paper, I check the ethical pulse of further education (FE) at the moment of its coming of age. Using a philosophical lens, I select and review post-2010 literature, to argue that FE colleges persist in a diminished form within a learning economy. In response to the managerial onslaught, the sector has adopted an ethics of survival, a necessary response to austerity and deregulation. Twenty-one years after incorporation, ethical fading has purged ethical desire from educational discourse, while the endless banality of college life has corroded the language with which it might be possible to speak about educational purpose, value, utopia, democracy, equity, and vision.
Highlights
In this paper, I explore three subjects that are too infrequently considered in direct relation to each other – further education (FE), ethics, and leadership.The line of argument I pursue is one that follows a somewhat circular logic
Governance signals leadership in its least heroic, most collective form.Avis’s (2010) discussion of governance allows a particular questioning of leadership: What and how is FE leadership constituted? In Avis’s (2010) paper it is collectively embodied, inter-subjective, and imbued with both liberatory potential and repressive limitation.This dialectic forms a refrain that echoes throughout the literature explored
While my purpose has been to explore empirical research based on FE leadership to identify the changing ways in which ethics is implicated, even if not acknowledged, this paper offers a slight change in direction
Summary
Further education colleges and leadership: Checking the ethical pulse. London Review of Education, 14(1) 116 - 130. Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. I check the ethical pulse of further education (FE) at the moment of its coming of age. I select and review post-2010 literature, to argue that FE colleges persist in a diminished form within a learning economy. In response to the managerial onslaught, the sector has adopted an ethics of survival, a necessary response to austerity and deregulation.
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