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ERIC Number: EJ954852
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 22
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0268-0939
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The Evolution of Accountability
Webb, P. Taylor
Journal of Education Policy, v26 n6 p735-756 2011
Campus 2020: Thinking ahead is a policy in British Columbia (BC), Canada, that attempted to hold universities accountable to performance. Within, I demonstrate how this Canadian articulation of educational accountability intended to develop "governmentality constellations" to control the university and regulate its knowledge output. This research illustrates how power in education is evolving from a disciplinary form, as expressed in the term "governmentality", and toward a form of networked power in the form of "societies of control". I pursue my analysis by juxtaposing sections of the government report with sections from Gilles Deleuze's "Postscript on the Societies of Control". The synthesis from these two texts demonstrates how BC's provincial government intended to develop a network of governmentality constellations which would have maintained and exercised power through macro- and micro-surveillance technologies. In conclusion, I argue that BC wanted to assemble its new accountability machine and finally participate in the neoliberal democratic network of educational surveillance in Canada, and eventually, the world. (Contains 1 note and 3 figures.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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