Education, Professionalism, and the Quest for Accountability: Hitting the Target But Missing the Point

ISBN-13: 9780415879255 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 268 str.

Jane Green

Opis

Focusing on education and its relation to professional accountability, this book views the issues from different but related perspectives. It examines the detrimental effects which the system of accountability has had on education and its practice.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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