Author : Jane Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136837213
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Book Synopsis Education, Professionalism and the Quest for Accountability by : Jane Green
Download or read book Education, Professionalism and the Quest for Accountability written by Jane Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, workers based in institutions designed to serve the public – teachers, nurses, social workers, community officers, librarians, civil servants, etc – are expected to reorganize their thoughts and practice in accordance with a 'performance' management model of accountability which encourages a rigid bureaucracy, one which translates regulation and monitoring procedures into inflexible and obligatory compliance. This book shows how and why this performance model may be expected, paradoxically, to make practices less accountable – and, in the case of education, less educative.