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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"audit culture"”.
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Principals and the Phenomenon of Neoliberal Audit Culture
… perceptions of six principals of the assessment culture within their schools. The principals were experienced in the assessment culture under study from a single school district consisting of two principals from each level – elementary, middle and high – with each level having one principal with …
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Judging What They Do: Formal, Informal, and Self Appraisal of New Zealand (Rural) Primary School Principals
… neo-conservative ideals and practices of an audit culture. New Zealand’s self-managing schools’ policy, introduced in 1989, changed significantly the complexity of school principals’ work. Leadership frameworks and professional standards have ‘captured’ this complexity and support appraisal …
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The Evolving Model of School Self-Evaluation in Ireland: How a Person’s Perception of Purpose and Power Determines Practice
… of an internalisation of the performativity and audit culture of New Managerialism along with advocating a deliberative democratic logic for SSE. The main finding is that a professional practitioner (school leader or teacher) perception of the purpose and power implications of SSE as a policy …
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Deficit Discourse, Urban Teachers' Work and the Blame Game
… to education, particularly the market-based, audit culture logics and practices that devalue, discipline and target teachers as workers, and (b) the racialized deficit discourse, a predominant framework in urban schools--often taken up by urban teachers--that blames poor urban youth and youth …
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The discourse of the marketisation of higher education : a case study of a post-92 university
… are being usurped by an economic ethos and an audit vocabulary. The purpose of the study is to demystify marketisation and explore its implications for the people who work, teach and learn in a post-92 university. An examination of the history of higher education reveals that its nature and …
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Voices in a Knowledge Conversation : an exploration of two narrative representations of Adult Literacy Learners
… of research around textualisation, paperwork and audit culture, the thesis openly acknowledges issues around carrying out research in a low-trust environment, thereby contributing to this, often overlooked, aspect of research.
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Records management and the accountability of governance
… do it for them. The need for managing risk and audit culture is imperative to balance and satisfy the expectation of citizen and stakeholders. The accountability of a government can arguably only be achieved when it demonstrates considerable transparency, which in turn can only happen when trust …
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Working through change: An insider's analysis of FE teachers and tutors lived experience in a time of initiative overload
… ‘intensification of labour’, the ‘audit culture’ and the casualisation and ‘deprofessionalisation’ of academic staff. These and other issues had emerged as possible reasons for the way staff said they felt in my interviews with tutors and my long term participant observations in …
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Of engineers, rationalities, and rule: An ethnography of neoliberal reform in an urban water utility in South India
This study is an ethnography of a frontline culture of neoliberalism. It examines the new rationalities through which Chennai's reforming water utility, Metrowater, defines and categorizes people at its everyday public interface. It analyzes how reforms designed to minimize the state are …
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The fantasy of the corroborative and transformative archive: the authority of archival beginnings
… role: (1) There is an archive fever of audit culture. This is in response to the rise of the ‘consumer’ – “There is a risk, we’ll take care of it”. Continual monitoring, evaluation, and targets results in the record being a self-reflexive construct. Audit trails create a sense of …
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‘Whether the elves are watching or not’. Listening to teachers’ experiences regarding surveillance technologies in schools.
… Circuit Television) is commonplace, and an audit culture well established. This study explores how teachers feel the atmosphere and culture of a school is influenced by technologized surveillance tools. Three interrelated questions were explored; what effect do surveillance technologies in …
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A Three-part Analysis of Continuing Medical Education
Physicians, medical educators, and health care systems all share responsibility for the effectiveness of continuing medical education (CME) activities. Because CME has been criticized as being incapable of supporting physician competency to provide good health care, the researcher uses Gramsci’s …