Enriching Ethical Leadership in Higher Education as Advanced Learning

Abstract

The current paper will discuss the pedagogical affordances of an “Ethical Leadership” subject as a part of an Advanced Learning and Leadership program at the University of Melbourne tailored for doctoral candidates and early career academics. Informed by Aristotelian framework in cultivating theoretical and practical wisdom among adult learners, this subject delves into different principles and values in achieving ethical leadership. Higher degree researchers learn about different leadership perspectives, power of self‐leadership, leadership in opposition, leading change, as well as wisdom and failure in leadership through mixed mode of activities, lectures, and performing seminars. Importantly, they will be equipped to understand and envisage more ethical ways of leadership in their own research journey as well as future academic life. Selected, thought‐provoking ideas from both local and international candidates, undertaking that course will be discussed to provide promising implications for future leadership pedagogy and research.

Rise of Wisdom Pedagogy Research in Higher Education (1980–2022): A Systematic Literature Review

“…Surprisingly, there were only 2 articles [2,14] mentioning the 'wisdom pedagogy' keyword. However, 'wisdom' [2,14,[42][43][44][45], 'practical wisdom', 'phronesis' [46][47][48], 'wisdom sharing' [49], 'peripheral wisdom' [50], and 'worldly wisdom' [2] were named most frequently after 'higher education' [44,45,[50][51][52][53][54][55].…”

“…We believe that wisdom pedagogy would help students to become good citizens of the society, to realize what is of importance in their life, it would help them judge what is fake and what is real information, it would help them act based on ethical and moral values, it would help them to take responsibility of their action by considering future impacts of their actions on the society and on the environment. Initiation (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013) decolonization, globalization, indigenous worldviews, pedagogy, Pacific education, Pacific Islands studies [62] religious education, pedagogy, wisdom, friendship, co-creation, dialogue [42] anthropology, pedagogy, wisdom, responsibility, authority and determinism, nature and spirit [43] higher education, wisdom, early childhood, teacher education, pedagogy, spirituality, immigrant [44] Slow growth (2014-2017) embodiment, eroticism, gender, sexuality, university, academic work sustainability pedagogy, higher education, ecological problems [63] ecological systems, indigenous teaching, whole self, transformational learning [51] catholic higher education, agrarianism, Catholicism, culture [52] British values, countering extremism, religious literacy, equalities, multiculturalism, Islamophobia [58] higher education, learning design, skill sets, pedagogy, curriculum, key competences, sustainability, university, thinking [53] ethical leadership, cultivating practical wisdom, adult education, leading change, academic life, leadership pedagogy [46] Intensive growth (2018-2022) wisdom, wisdom curriculum, wisdom pedagogy [14] spirituality, wisdom sharing, curriculum development, cross-cultural values, transcendent level, non-religious [49] Taoism, Tao Te Ching, self-awareness, individuality, diversity, self-cultivation [59] higher education, ecozoic era, justice, sustainability, pluriverse, interdependence, relationality, ecological economics, research agenda, textbooks [54] student engagement, higher education, professional development, forward-facing curriculum, peripheral wisdom, collaborative learning [50] authoritarian resilience, civil society, cultural governance, educated acquiescence, higher education, intellectuals [55] wisdom, pedagogy, university, wor...…”

“…2024, 3, FOR PEER REVIEW 12 Figure 9 shows the links between two types of nods i.e., authors and keywords. The interesting finding is that in the network there were seven articles [46,52,[56][57][58]60,61] which were not directly connected to others with any of their keywords. However, 17 articles [2,14,[42][43][44][45][47][48][49][50][51][53][54][55]59,62,63] were directly connected with keywords such as character education, practical wisdom, self-awareness, well-being, sustainability, higher education, pedagogy, wisdom pedagogy, immigrant, spirituality, and university.…”

“…Results, based on analyses of 161 keywords (Table A1 in Appendix A) and 24 abstracts (Table A2 in Appendix A), are the followings: Surprisingly, there were only 2 articles [2,14] mentioning the 'wisdom pedagogy' keyword. However, 'wisdom' [2,14,42-45], 'practical wisdom', 'phronesis' [46][47][48], 'wis-…”

“…It was interesting to find different types of 'pedagogies' in the articles such as 'sustainability pedagogy' [51], 'leadership pedagogy' [46], 'contemplative pedagogy' [45], 'cultural existentialism pedagogy' [56], and 'sport pedagogy' [48]…”