Education, professionalism and the quest for accountability : hitting the target but missing the point / Jane Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Jane, 1948-

Series:

Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education ; 26.

Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational accountability--Great Britain.

Educational accountability.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 267 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Contents:

Part I Starting-Points: Ideas, Ideals, and Ideologies

1 From Concern to Doubt, From Doubt to Critique 25

2 Quest for Accountability: The Managerial Response 38

3 The Lure of the Explicit: Managerial Modes of Accountability and the Ideal of Transparency 58

Part II Practical Judgment

4 Responsibility and Accountability 81

5 Accountability, Answerability, and the Virtue of Responsibleness: Sketch of a Neo-Aristotelian Model of Practical Rationality 101

6 Quest for Accountability: The Neo-Aristotelian Response 116

Part III End-Points: Ideas, Ideals, and Ideologies

7 Return of the Lure of the Explicit: 'Making the Implicit Explicit' 139

8 'Knowing How To': Further Attempts to Make Practical Knowledge Explicit 156

9 Public Trust and Accountability: What Public? Whose Trust? Which Accountability? 175

Conclusion 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415879255

0415879256

OCLC:

650505685