Education, Professionalism, and the Quest for Accountability: Hitting the Target but Missing the Point (Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education)

280 Pages·2010·2.43 MB·English

by  Jane Green

Education,
Professionalism,
and the Quest for
Accountability
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in the Philosophy of Education
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26. Education, Professionalism and
the Quest for Accoun tability
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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Education, professionalism and the quest for accountability : hitting the target but
missing the point / by Jane Green.
p. cm. — (Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education ; 26)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Educational accountability—Great Britain. I. Title.
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For Matthew and Rachel

Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
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