Session Information
17 SES 06, Parallel Paper Session
Parallel Paper Session
Contribution
Holding schools, teachers, and pupils accountable is a widespread practice in contemporary education systems throughout industrialised nations. The accountability discourse has been particularly strong in Anglo-Saxon countries, whereupon it has spread to the rest of the world, including Denmark. A concept originally derived from economics, accountability can be defined as assigning responsibility for an activity to someone. While many people perceive of accountability as a modern phenomenon, the discourse of accountability actually incorporates numerous historical antecedents, technologies, and arguments. In fact, accountability has always been a key ingredient in Danish education governance through the various control measures and practices of school committees, school boards, executive authorities, and parents.
The aim of this paper is to present a historical study of accountability measures and practices in Danish education history from 1918 onwards in order to gain a fuller understanding of accountability and its potentials, appeals, and implications in contemporary Danish education. Accountability measures and practices serve the role of governing schools. By employing this type of historical and international analysis, the paper aims to draw attention to the pros and cons of such a methodology in contemporary education governance.
Research question: How can the historical genesis and antecedents of contemporary education accountability adequately be comprehended and which experiences with implications for contemporary education governance, policies, and organisation can be drawn from this genesis?
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References
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