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Accountability (My Ideas (Focused on outcomes, Management, Business model,…
Accountability
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Readings
Lingard, B. (2010). Policy borrowing, policy learning: testing times in Australian schooling. Critical Studies in Education, 51(2), 129–147. #
All Australian schools participate in NAPLAN and have their performance recorded and then made public.
These literacy and numeracy tests have become high stakes with potentially negative effects on pedagogies and curriculum (Alexander, 2009)
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The erosion of trust in teachers, affects teachers professional lives and sense of professional worth (Ball, 2006).
National partnership on Low SES Schools, the accountability frames associated with what the government calls their 'educational revolution' (NAPLAN and My School) are still located within neo-liberal frameworks and market-choice discourses. (Lingard, 2010).
Furlong, J. (2008). Making teaching a 21st century profession: Tony Blair’s big prize. Oxford Review of Education, 34(6), 727-739. #
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Professional goals and standards become closely aligned to current policy concerns of the government.
There is much speculation on the consequences of the intensification of teachers work which results from more accountability
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Questions
- Is there space for pedagogy and curriculum development?
- How does this support best outcomes for children?
- How does this increased pressure on teachers affect their ability to teach?
These readings confirm my idea that increased accountability of teachers can have negative affects on teachers ability to teach. Social justice issues are made way for educational outcomes. As these seem more important in a business model of education. Teachers have become over managed and have an increased pressure to perform to national standards.
Further Reading: Ball, S. 2003. The teacher’s soul and the terrors of performativity. Journal of Education Policy, 18(2): 215–228.
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