Accountability
- 1 April 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Educational Management & Administration
- Vol. 24 (2), 139-150
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0263211x96242003
Abstract
Accountability, it is claimed, has become a `politically incorrect' issue because: governments have encountered the limitations of simplistic market thinking just as the economic and political pressure for intervention in education has waned; parental desire to participate in governance has been largely satiated; and teachers are reasserting their view of professionalism. Despite all this, is it argued that accepting responsibility in education implies public accountability; accountability in education implies formative evaluation, educative reporting relationships and politically sensitive planning; and that educational leaders need to help legitimate stakeholders produce educative accountability policies that will help to improve the quality of learning, teaching and leadership.Keywords
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