University as an Ethical Academy?

Marek Tesar is Professor, Head of School and Associate Dean at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the President of PESA, Editor-in-Chief of Policy Futures in Education and Deputy Editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory. He edits numerous book series. His research is focused on methodological and philosophical thinking around ontologies and the ethics related to childhoods and early years education.Michael A. Peters is currently Distinguished Professor at Beijing Normal University, China, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. Michael is Editor-in Chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory and Beijing International Review of Education (Brill) and sits on the board of many other journals and book series. Michael has written over 100 books and many journal articles on a wide range of topics and has worked with and mentored many younger scholars.Liz Jackson is Professor and Head of Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong and Fellow and Past President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia. Liz is an editor of the book series New Directions in the Philosophy of Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor’s Choice, and Deputy Editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Her recent books include Questioning Allegiance: Resituating Civic Education (Routledge, 2019) and Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions (2020).

• 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 sous rature 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’