Jane Green

Education, Professionalism, and the Quest for Accountability

Hitting the Target But Missing the Point

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415879255
• ISBN-10: 0415879256
• Artikelnr.: 29929946

Autorenporträt

Dr. Jane Green is a freelance consultant and tutor, designing and running ethics courses. Further information can be found at www.ethics-courses.com.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Judgement
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 Part III: End-Points: Ideas, Ideals and Ideologies 7. Return of
the Lure of the Explicit: 'Making the Implicit Explicit' 8. 'Knowing How
To': Further Attempts to Make Practical Knowledge Explicit 9. Public Trust
and Accountability: What Public? Whose Trust? Which Accountability?
Conclusion