Brady, AM;
(2020)
Response and Responsibility: Rethinking Accountability in Education.
Journal of Philosophy of Education
10.1111/1467-9752.12501.
(In press).
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Abstract
Current conceptions of accountability imply that, in order for teachers to be able to hold themselves to account, they need first to have cultivated certain ‘professional dispositions’. But these conceptions fail to acknowledge the extent to which teachers are first and foremost accountable ‘as such’. For the early existentialist thought of the philosopher Jean‐Paul Sartre, this relates to a kind of responsibility premised on the ways in which we are always and inevitably responding to the world in which we find ourselves (with others). In this paper, I offer a reconceptualisation of teacher accountability in light of this, one that recognises implicit responses in classroom situations as underpinned by the subjectivity of those who bring these situations to light—often in subtle and immeasurable ways.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Response and Responsibility: Rethinking Accountability in Education |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9752.12501 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12501 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2020 The Authors. Journal of Philosophy of Education published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
| Keywords: | accountability, responsibility, Sartre, ontology |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10109317 |
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