Education, Professionalism, and the Quest for Accountability: Hitting the Target But Missing the Point Tapa blanda - 2013

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback / softback. New. This book focuses on education and its relation to professional accountability as viewed from two different, but not unrelated, perspectives. First, the book is about the work of professionals in schools and colleges (teachers, head teachers, leaders, principals, directors and educational managers, etc.) and the detrimental effects which our present system of accountability - and the managerialism which this system creates - have had on education, its practice, its organization, its conduct and its content. It is also about the professional education (the occupational/professional formation and development) of practitioners in communities other than educational ones and how they, too, contend with the effects of this system on their practices. These different perspectives represent two sides of the same problem: that whatever one's metier - whether a teacher, nurse, social worker, community officer, librarian, civil servant, etc - all who now work in institutions… Leer más

Routledge, 2013. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 267 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.