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Education, Professionalism, and the Quest for Accountability: Hitting the Target but Missing the Point

2011 Taylor & Francis ;ISBN: 9780415879255 ;ISBN: 0415879256 ;ISBN: 9780415855242 ;ISBN: 0415855241 ;EISBN: 9781136837210 ;EISBN: 9780203832561 ;EISBN: 0203832566 ;EISBN: 1136837213 ;EISBN: 0415879256 ;EISBN: 1136837205 ;EISBN: 9780415879255 ;EISBN: 9781136837203 ;DOI: 10.4324/9780203832561 ;OCLC: 704275196

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  • Title:
    Education, Professionalism, and the Quest for Accountability: Hitting the Target but Missing the Point
  • Author: Green, Jane
  • Subjects: Continuing Professional Development ; Education Policy & Politics ; Educational accountability ; Educational accountability - Great Britain ; Philosophy of Education
  • Description: This book focuses on education and its relation to professional accountability as viewed from two different, but not unrelated, perspectives. First, the book is about the work of professionals in schools and colleges (teachers, head teachers, leaders, principals, directors and educational managers, etc.) and the detrimental effects which our present system of accountability – and the managerialism which this system creates – have had on education, its practice, its organization, its conduct and its content. It is also about the professional education (the occupational/professional formation and development) of practitioners in communities other than educational ones and how they, too, contend with the effects of this system on their practices. These different perspectives represent two sides of the same problem: that whatever one’s métier – whether a teacher, nurse, social worker, community officer, librarian, civil servant, etc – all who now work in institutions designed to serve the public are expected to reorganize their thoughts and practice in accordance with a "performance" management model of accountability which encourages a rigid bureaucracy, one which translates regulation and monitoring procedures, guidelines and advice into inflexible and obligatory compliance. A careful scrutiny of the underlying rationale of this "managerial" model shows how and why it may be expected, paradoxically, to make practices less accountable – and, in the case of education, less educative.
  • Publisher: Oxford: Routledge
  • Creation Date: 2011
  • Format: 280
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780415879255
    ISBN: 0415879256
    ISBN: 9780415855242
    ISBN: 0415855241
    EISBN: 9781136837210
    EISBN: 9780203832561
    EISBN: 0203832566
    EISBN: 1136837213
    EISBN: 0415879256
    EISBN: 1136837205
    EISBN: 9780415879255
    EISBN: 9781136837203
    DOI: 10.4324/9780203832561
    OCLC: 704275196
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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