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Routledge Revivals Education Accountability First published in 1986, Education Accountability is a critique of writing on accountability and evaluation with respect to education and its various stake- holders. The author applies frameworks drawn from the theory of knowledge, social psychology and social policy, demonstrating how different assumptions about the nature of schooling, curriculum control and development can give rise to various forms of political control, of which education accountability is a special and important case. This sharp book will be valuable reading for all advanced students of education, whether interested in curriculum or educa- tional administration, as well as to students of political science, social policy and evaluation studies, teacher trainers, administrators and educational researchers. Education Accountability An Analytic Overview Maurice Kogan Firstpublishedin1986 byHutchinson&Co.(Publishers)Ltd Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2022byRoutledge 4ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN andbyRoutledge 605ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©MauriceKogan,1986 All rightsreserved.No part ofthis bookmaybe reprintedor reproducedor utilisedin any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbutpoints outthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and welcomes correspondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletocontact. ALibraryofCongressrecordexistsunderISBN:0091632218 ISBN:978-1-032-30334-5(hbk) ISBN:978-1-003-30478-4(ebk) ISBN:978-1-032-30373-4(pbk) BookDOI10.4324/9781003304784 Education Accountability An analytic overview Maurice Kogan Professor of Government and Social Administration, Brunei University Hutchinson London Melbourne Sydney Auckland Johannesburg Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd An imprint of the Hutchinson Publishing Group 62-65 Chandos Place, London WC2N 4NW and 51 Washington Street, Dover, New Hampshire 03820, USA Hutchinson Publishing Group (Australia) Pty Ltd 10-22 Church Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122 Hutchinson Group (NZ) Ltd 32-34 View Road, PO Box 40-086, Glenfield, Auckland 10 Hutchinson Group (SA) (Pty) Ltd PO Box 337, Bergvlei 2012, South Africa First published 1986 © Maurice Kogan 1986 Set in Linotype Times by Saxon Ltd., Derby, England. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Anchor Brendon Ltd, Tiptree, Essex British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Kogan, Maurice Education accountability: an analytic overview. I. Title 379.1*54 LB2806 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Kogan, Maurice. Education Accountability. Bibliography: P. Includes index. 1. Education and State—Great Britain. 2. Educational Accountability—Great Britain. 3. Education—Great Britain—Evaluation. 4. Education and State— United States. 5. Educational Accountability—United States. 8. Education— United States—Evaluation. I. Title. LC93.G7K64 1986 379.1*54 85-27234 ISBN 0091632218 Contents Acknowledgements 6 Preface 9 Part One Policy Problems, Present Modes and Institutions 1 The contexts of normative models of accountability 15 2 Normative models of accountability 25 3 Existing institutions for accountability 55 Part Two A Model and Frames for Analysis 4 A model for analysing issues and a first line of analysis: political theory 85 5 Values and affect 94 6 Epistemologies and evaluation 125 7 Conclusions 145 Appendix: Education accountability projects financed by the SSRC 153 Bibliographical notes and references 155 Index 173 Acknowledgements Many have contributed towards the preparation of this work. It began life as a report to the Social Science Research Council and its successor, the Economic and Social Research Council, who were generous in providing release for two half academic years and the associated travel and other resources. Three undergraduates in the Department of Government, Brunei University, on work place- ments helped by tracking and producing references and, in one case, by making a study of the literature on the accountability of chief education officers: Patricia Glover, Mark Lytham and Niall McGowan. For one of my terms of release from work at Brunei I was a visitor at the Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of California at Berkeley. Martin Trow and many other colleagues there provided me with three uncluttered months in which to ponder on and read about the issues under study. Among my own colleagues at Brunei, Daphne Johnson, Martin Lightfoot, Tim Packwood and Tim Whitaker read and helpfully criticised the text. Mary Henkel clarified some of its key assumptions and, in particular, advanced the conceptualisations in Chapters 5 and 6. Many others commented on different drafts: Tony Becher, Patricia Broadfoot, Mark Cohen and Marilyn Osborn, and Hutchinson’s anonymous reader provided important corrections and new dimen- sions to the arguments. Sally Harris produced the many versions of this book.
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