Academic responsibility: toward a cultural politics of integrity

Tierney, William G.; Almeida, Daniel J.

doi:10.4324/9780203703038-8

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“…By interpellating teachers, they are made responsible subjects by the way of self-governing (Tierney and Almeida, 2017). In this way, responsibilization produce and drag subjects into social relationships, beyond their own department and Faculty (Møller, 2009).…”

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“…Both concepts are linked to societal norms and to the value-system of the organization (see e.g. Lerner and Tetlock, 1999; Greening higher education Tierney and Almeida, 2017). One difference that the authors want to point out is that responsibilization may be shared and more informal (Peeters, 2013), while accountability is generally formalized in an organizational context (Lauermann and Karabenick, 2011).…”

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“…Responsibilization involved more than just being obliged to respond, it is built on the idea were subjects are made into responsible subjects and therefore expected to be accountable for their actions. This suggest that is, in short, a technique of self-governing (Tierney and Almeida, 2017).…”

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“…Accountabilization, the authors suggest, denotes the process in which responsibilized subjects give an account of themselves to someone else. Inspired by Althusser’s and Butler’s (2001) understandings of accountability, the authors argue that to give an account of oneself could, potentially at least, shape the subjectivity of that person, and thereby make him or her what he or she is (Baroutsis, 2017; Tierney and Almeida, 2017).…”

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Greening higher education? From responsibilization to accountabilization in the incorporation of sustainability in higher education

Macheridis

Paulsson

2021

IJSHE

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Purpose This study aims to investigate how sustainability has been incorporated – or mainstreamed - in a school at one university through techniques of responsibilization and accountabilization. Design/methodology/approach Inspired by the extended case study methodology, the authors participated, observed and analyzed two audit-inspired processes, whose aims included ensuring that sustainability was integrated into the educational process. Findings By following two audit-inspired processes, the authors show how teachers were asked to respond to open-ended survey questions and by doing so emerged as responsibilized subjects. Although the teachers were given lots of space to interpret the concept of sustainability and show how it was translated into the programs and courses offered, the teachers were made accountable as established organizational hierarchies were reproduced when responsibilization was formalized through techniques of accountabilization. Research limitations/implications The analysis moves beyond the instrumental epistemologies characterizing much of the positivist-oriented research in higher education. As with all studies, the authors study also has methodological limitations, such as involving a single higher education institution. There is a general need for more empirical research in this area in order to build theory and to understand whether the concepts of responsibilization and accountabilization can also be applied in other higher education contexts. Practical implications The study shows that higher education administrators engage in processes of responsibilization and accountabilization through formalized processes of interpellation, as documents and self-assessment exercises tie teachers to organizational contexts. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first study that introduces the concepts of responsibilization and accountabilization as social relationships in higher education governance.

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