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Today, workers based€in institutions designed to serve the public--teachers, nurses, social workers, community officers, librarians, civil servants, etc.--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 into inflexible and obligatory compliance. This book shows how and why this performance model may be expected, paradoxically, to make practices less accountable--and, in the case of education, less educative. Read more... Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Starting-Points: Ideas, Ideals, and Ideologies; 1 From Concern to Doubt, From Doubt to Critique; 2 Quest for Accountability: The Managerial Response; 3 The Lure of the Explicit: Managerial Modes of Accountability and the Ideal of Transparency; Part II Practical Judgment; 4 Responsibility and Accountability; 5 Accountability, Answerability, and the Virtue of Responsibleness: Sketch of a Neo-Aristotelian Model of Practical Rationality; 6 Quest for Accountability: The Neo-Aristotelian Response
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Education, Professionalism, and the Quest for Accountability
Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
1. Education and Work in Great Britain, Germany and Italy Edited by A. Jobert, C. Marry, L. Tanguy and H. Rainbird 2. Education, Autonomy and Democratic Citizenship Philosophy in a Changing World Edited by David Bridges 3. The Philosophy of Human Learning Christopher Winch 4. Education, Knowledge and Truth Beyond the Postmodern Impasse Edited by David Carr
11. Education, Work and Social Capital Towards a New Conception of Vocational Education Christopher Winch 12. Philosophical Discussion in Moral Education The Community of Ethical Inquiry Tim Sprod 13. Methods in the Philosophy of Education Frieda Heyting, Dieter Lenzen and John White
5. Virtue Ethics and Moral Education Edited by David Carr and Jan Steutel
14. Life, Work and Learning Practice in Postmoderniity David Beckett and Paul Hager
6. Durkheim and Modern Education Edited by Geoffrey Walford and W. S. F. Pickering
15. Education, Autonomy and Critical Thinking Christopher Winch
7. The Aims of Education Edited by Roger Marples
16. Anarchism and Education A Philosophical Perspective Judith Suissa
8. Education in Morality J. Mark Halstead and Terence H. McLaughlin 9. Lyotard: Just Education Edited by Pradeep A. Dhillon and Paul Standish 10. Derrida & Education Edited by Gert J J Biesta and Denise Egéa-Kuehne
17. Cultural Diversity, Liberal Pluralism and Schools Isaiah Berlin and Education Neil Burtonwood 18. Levinas and Education At the Intersection of Faith and Reason Edited by Denise Egéa-Kuehne
19. Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education Ishtiyaque Haji and Stefaan E. Cuypers 20. Education, Science and Truth Rasoul Nejadmehr 21. Philosophy of Education in the Era of Globalization Edited by Yvonne Raley and Gerhard Preyer 22. Habermas, Critical Theory and Education Edited by Mark Murphy and Ted Fleming 23. The New Significance of Learning Imagination’s Heartwork Pádraig Hogan 24. Beauty and Education Joe Winston 25. Education, Professionalization and Social Representations On the Transformation of Social Knowledge Edited by Mohamed Chaib, Berth Danermark and Staffan Selander 26. Education, Professionalism and the Quest for Accountability Hitting the Target but Missing the Point Jane Green
Education, Professionalism, and the Quest for Accountability Hitting the Target but Missing the Point
Jane Green
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First published 2011 by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Rou