Education, Accountability, and the Ethical Demand: Can the Democratic Potential of Accountability Be Regained?

Autor/in	Biesta, Gert J. J.
Titel	Education, Accountability, and the Ethical Demand: Can the Democratic Potential of Accountability Be Regained?
Quelle	In: Educational Theory, 54 (2004) 3, S.233-250 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-2004
DOI	10.1111/j.0013-2004.2004.00017.x
Schlagwörter	Educational Responsibility; Ethics; Accountability; Postmodernism; Democratic Values; Democracy; Interpersonal Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Erziehungsverantwortung; Ethik; Verantwortung; Postmoderne; Demokratie; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract	This paper analyzes the impact of the idea of accountability on education. It considers the kind of relationships that are promoted or produced by the culture of accountability, both in order to understand what kind of relationships are made possible and to understand what kind of relationships are made difficult, or even impossible, as a result of the accountability regime. The paper explores how the managerial uses of the idea of accountability have become pervasive in contemporary education and how this has changed relationships among students, parents, teachers, and the state. Ultimately, accountability erodes relationships of responsibility. Zygmunt Bauman's postmodern ethics is used to gain a detailed understanding of why it has become so much more difficult to develop relationships of responsibility under the accountability regime. Bauman's proposal that we should take responsibility for our responsibility also suggests a starting point from which the democratic potential of accountability might be regained. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10