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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Jane, 1948- author.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

pt. 1. Starting-points : ideas, ideals, and ideologies

pt. 2. Practical judgment

pt. 3. End-points : ideas, ideals, and ideologies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-83720-5

1-136-83721-3

1-283-04106-5

9786613041067

0-203-83256-6

9780203832561

OCLC:

704275196