Living with integrity

Abstract

Living with integrityEnvironmental Values was founded by Alan Holland and first published in 1992. Clive Spash joined the journal's editorial team in 1996 as the review editor. After Alan stepped down as founding editor in 2005, following a short interim period, Clive took over as chief editor of the journal in 2006. When Alan left as editor there was a special issue (Volume 17 no.2) dedicated to his workmuch like this one for Clive. In the editorial for that issue, Clive offered a defence of academic values that are increasingly under threat from commercial and political power. The title of the piece, 'A worthwhile academic life', is one that captures the central question it addressed. How can one lead a worthwhile academic life in a world in which academic life itself is increasingly under threat from commerce and political power? Clive focused on the ways in which the marketisation of education corrupts its central values and changes the nature of relationships within education. The editorial opened with the following passage: