Autonomy and accountability in the regulation of the teaching profession : a South African case study

dc.contributor.authorJansen, Jonathan D.
dc.contributor.emailjonathan.jansen@up.ac.zaen
dc.date.accessioned2006-01-27T12:08:54Z
dc.date.available2006-01-27T12:08:54Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the struggles of the South African government to establish school-wide evaluation policies within post-apartheid institutions. It is demonstrated that even when such evaluation policies promise teacher development and whole-school improvement, there is significant resistance to government intervention in the school environment. It is also shown that even when individual schools express a willingness to participate in such evaluation actions, they remain deeply suspicious of, and even subvert, the original goals of these policies. The explanation for such behaviour is lodged within the troubled history of the apartheid inspection system, on the one hand, and on the underestimation in policy design of the deep-rooted suspicions of state surveillance systems even under the terms of a new democracy. In conclusion, the article shows how this fierce--though understandable--contestation of school-level autonomy actually works against the long-term developmental interests of both teachers and learners in South Africa's 29,000 schools.en
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dc.identifier.citationJansen, J D 2004, ‘Autonomy and accountability in the regulation of the teaching profession: a South African case study’, Research Papers in Education, vol. 19, issue 1, pp. 51-66. [http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02671522.asp]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/116
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
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dc.subjectAutonomyen
dc.subjectLearningen
dc.subjectPerformanceen
dc.subjectTeachingen
dc.subjectGovernment regulationen
dc.subjectAccountabilityen
dc.subjectWhole school evaluationen
dc.subjectTeacher developmenten
dc.subjectEducational policyen
dc.subjectDemocracy
dc.subjectPolitical interference
dc.titleAutonomy and accountability in the regulation of the teaching profession : a South African case studyen
dc.typeArticleen

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