By Jane Green
ISBN-10: 0415855241
ISBN-13: 9780415855242
ISBN-10: 0415879256
ISBN-13: 9780415879255
This publication makes a speciality of schooling and its relation to expert responsibility as seen from varied, yet now not unrelated, views. First, the e-book is set the paintings of execs in colleges and faculties (teachers, head academics, leaders, principals, administrators and academic managers, etc.) and the hazardous results which our current method of responsibility – and the managerialism which the program creates – have had on schooling, its perform, its association, its behavior and its content material. it's also concerning the expert schooling (the occupational/professional formation and improvement) of practitioners in groups except academic ones and the way they, too, deal with the consequences of the program on their practices.
These diverse views characterize facets of an identical challenge: that no matter what one’s métier – even if a instructor, nurse, social employee, group officer, librarian, civil servant, and so forth – all who now paintings in associations designed to serve the general public are anticipated to reorganize their ideas and perform based on a "performance" administration version of responsibility which inspires a inflexible forms, one that interprets legislation and tracking approaches, directions and recommendation into rigid and compulsory compliance. A cautious scrutiny of the underlying purpose of this "managerial" version indicates how and why it can be anticipated, mockingly, to make practices much less liable – and, in relation to schooling, much less educative.
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Education, Professionalism, and the Quest for Accountability: Hitting the Target but Missing the Point (Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education) by Jane Green
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