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Education, professionalism and the quest for accountability : hitting the target but missing the point /
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 enco...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Colección: | Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education ;
26. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203832561 0203832566 |