Accountability: Antecedents, Power, and Processes


by Heinz-Dieter Meyer, Daniel Tröhler, David F. Labaree & Ethan L. Hutt - 2014

Epitomized by the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the U.S. government’s Race to the Top, “accountability” is becoming a pervasive normalizing discourse, legitimizing historic shifts from viewing education as a social and cultural to an economic project engendering usable skills and “competences.” The purpose of this special issue is to provide context and perspective on these momentous shifts. The papers point to historic antecedents, highlight core ideas, and identify changes in the balance of power between domestic and global policy makers.


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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 116 Number 9, 2014, p. 1-12
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 17547, Date Accessed: 3/31/2020 3:51:15 AM

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