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ERIC Number: EJ1399383
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 29
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0017-8055
EISSN: EISSN-1943-5045
The Human Side of Accountability: Dilemmas of Reaching All Learners
Kim, Taeyeon
Harvard Educational Review, v93 n3 p313-341 2023
This portraiture-informed study by Taeyeon Kim challenges the dominant discourse of accountability, which often focuses on high-stakes policies at the expense of relational aspects of accountability in schools. Building on working theories of accountability, humanizing leadership, and paradox theory, Kim theorizes the "human side of accountability," where leaders simultaneously address the tensions of multiple demands and implement policy mandates in ways that attempt to mitigate their unintended harm to students, particularly minoritized students. Using interviews, shadowing, photo-elicited focus groups, and artifacts generated from a yearlong qualitative study of three US elementary school principals, Kim explores how school principals make meaning of accountability in their daily practices and how they address dilemmas created by competing demands. The analysis suggests that leaders' enactment of accountability can be understood as a daily balancing act of promoting equity to provide missing and overlooked support in policy mandates. This article thus challenges existing policy approaches and provides strategies for rethinking how processes of accountability can be imagined in school settings.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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