University as an Ethical Academy?

<p>This book examines the importance, possibilities, and complexities of the university as an ethical academy. Universities may be seen as an evolving network of ethical systems that govern teaching, research, service, and administration. However, the university system is changing: adding new rules, new ways of working, and new ideas to its repertoire of operations. The theories that we have traditionally employed may be now put up for questioning and examination. Universities now comprise a spectacularly large body of regulations and policies, both internal and external, that cover issues from cheating, human subject research, academic integrity, research on animals, environmental ethics, and the ethics of sexual harassment. These interconnected ecological systems of ethics have not emerged in one rational process but rather reflect the ongoing historical and dynamic development of law and ethics in relation to the creation of new values. This has played out in a particular political and ideological environment, which has produced the university as a set of practices and beliefs and a particular set of rationalities. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal <i>Educational Philosophy and Theory</i>.</p> <p>1. Introduction—The ethical academy? The university as an ethical system 2. A Maori il-logical ethics of the dark: an example with ‘trauma’ 3. Gnosticism, progressivism and the (im)possibility of the ethical academy 4. Towards a higher education: contemplation, compassion, and the ethics of slowing down 5. The neoliberal academic: illustrating shifting academic norms in an age of hyper-performativity 6. The amoral academy? A critical discussion of research ethics in the neo-liberal university 7. Ethicalisation of higher education reform: the strategic integration of academic discourse on scholarly ethos 8. The deconstructed ethics of Martin Heidegger, or, the university <i>sous rature</i> 9. Scholars of color turn to womanism: countering dehumanization in the academy 10. Ethics, archives and data sharing in qualitative research 11. Missing in action: exposing the moral failures of universities that desert researchers facing court-ordered disclosure of confidential information 12. ‘Ethics review, neoliberal governmentality and the activation of moral subjects’</p>