Bureaucratization, Education and the Meanings of Responsibility

Autor/in	Spector, Hannah
Titel	Bureaucratization, Education and the Meanings of Responsibility
Quelle	In: Curriculum Inquiry, 48 (2018) 5, S.503-520 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0362-6784
DOI	10.1080/03626784.2018.1547615
Schlagwörter	Administrative Organization; Governance; School Organization; Ethics; Responsibility; Politics of Education; Accountability; Authoritarianism; Power Structure; Educational Change; Socialization; Neoliberalism; Educational Practices; Educational Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; School organisation; Schulorganisation; Ethik; Verantwortungsübernahme; Zuständigkeit; Verantwortung; Autoritarismus; Bildungsreform; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung
Abstract	In US-based educational research, the bureaucratization of education has been interpreted primarily from economic points of view. This paper examines bureaucracy and education from a political perspective, which provides key insights into the ways that bureaucracy as a form of governance influences ethical consciousness. As this paper puts forth, bureaucratic socialization supplants procedural for ethical responsibility. To understand the gravity and pervasiveness of this process, I turn to Max Weber's theory of rational bureaucracy and Hannah Arendt's insights into bureaucracy as a type of political domination, which she calls 'rule by Nobody'. Following Arendt, bureaucracy is the most tyrannical type of rule given that there is tyranny without a tyrant. As such, responsibility falls by the wayside since no one can answer for what is being done. I argue that to understand the meanings of responsibility in education, one must do so in light of the ways that universal bureaucratization -- its rational procedures, managerial techniques, knowledge fragmentations and so on -- undermines ethical consciousness. As understanding rests at the heart of this inquiry, the paper ends on a note of caution regarding what to do about the breakdown of educational responsibility in a bureaucratized society. (As Provided).
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