Further education colleges and leadership: Checking the ethical pulse

Dennis, Carol Azumah

Abstract

In this paper I check the ethical pulse of Further Education 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.

Citation

Dennis, C. A. (2016). Further education colleges and leadership: Checking the ethical pulse. London Review of Education, 14(1), 116-130. https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.14.1.11

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 7, 2016
• Publication Date: Apr 18, 2016
• Deposit Date: Mar 7, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 18, 2016
• Journal: London review of education
• Print ISSN: 1474-8460
• Electronic ISSN: 1474-8479
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 116-130
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.14.1.11
• Keywords: Further education colleges, Leadership
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/412458
• Publisher URL: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/ioep/clre/2016/00000014/00000001/art00011#
• Additional Information: This is a copy of an article accepted for publication in London review of education, 2016.