Responsibility and Responsibilisation in Education

ISBN-13: 9780367518493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str.

Christine Halse; Catherine Hartung; Jan Wright

Opis

This book examines the ways in which responsibility and responsibilisation operate in diverse educational settings, relationships and social, policy and geographical contexts in the USA, Europe, the UK, New Zealand and Australia. This volume was originally published as a special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Spis treści

Introduction. Responsibility and responsibilisation in education  1. Responsibility for racism in the everyday talk of secondary students  2. Global citizenship incorporated: competing responsibilities in the education of global citizens   3. Homophobia, transphobia, young people and the question of responsibility  4. Reframing responsibility in an era of responsibilisation: education, feminist ethics  5. Growing up after the GFC: responsibilisation and mortgaged futures  6. Ghostings, materialisations and flows in Britain’s special educational needs and disability assemblage  7. Blaming the victim: assessment, examinations, and the responsibilisation of students and teachers in neo-liberal governance  8. Academic responsibility: toward a cultural politics of integrity  9. The implications of contractualism for the responsibilisation of higher education  10. Responsibilisation and leadership in the neoliberal university: a New Zealand perspective  11. From State responsibility for education and welfare to self-responsibilisation in the market 

O autorze

Christine Halse is Chair Professor of Intercultural Education in the Department of Education, Policy and Leadership, The Education University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the manifestation of sociological themes in bodies and biographies, particularly in interracial and intercultural relations.

Catherine Hartung is Lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Otago College of Education, New Zealand. Her research draws on feminist poststructural theory to critically examine how various educational, cultural and political institutions govern children and young people, as well as the ways that children and young people negotiate and resist this institutional governance.

Jan Wright is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her most recent research draws on feminist and poststructuralist theory to critically engage issues associated with the relationship between embodiment, culture and health.