Journal article
Reframing responsibility in an era of responsibilisation: education, feminist ethics and an ‘idiom of care’
J McLeod
Discourse | Taylo | Published : 2016
Abstract
Late modern social theories and critiques of neoliberalism have emphasised the regulatory and negative aspects of responsibility, readily associating it with self-responsibility or analytically converting it to the notion of responsibilisation. This article argues for stepping back from these critiques in order to reframe responsibility as a relational disposition and practice in education that warrants a fresh look. Feminist scholarship on the ethics of care, affective equality and relational responsibility are revisited in light of a consideration of teachers’ work and educational purposes. It is argued, first, that there is an urgency for repositioning responsibility as a productive orien..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This article draws from research undertaken as part of two ARC Projects: 'Educating the Australian Adolescent: An Historical study of Curriculum, Counselling and Citizenship, 1930s - 1970s', (DP0987299, Discovery Grant); and 'Youth Identity and Educational Change since 1950: digital archiving, re-using qualitative data and histories of the present' (FT110100646, Future Fellowship.)