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Why don't you give the money back?'' Questions of accounting and accountability in three accounts of educational research

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ID12214102
AuthorsJulia Clarke (0000-0002-9310-3775, corresponding author), Roger Harrison (0000-0001-5909-7669), Fiona Reeve (0000-0001-6168-1485), Richard Edwards (0000-0002-0234-8268)
Year2002
Volume15
Issue5
Pages555-568
Publication date2002-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0951-8398 • E-ISSN: 1366-5898
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09518390210157289
OpenAlexW2088830083
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

This paper explores questions of accounting and accountability through three accounts of an empirical study of flexibility in two UK further education colleges. In this study, conceptions of flexibility and lifelong learning are being interrogated primarily through the analysis of interviews conducted with students and staff during the autumn term of 1999. In three parallel representations of this research, the authors present an algorithmic tale, a tale of strategic improvisations and a reflexive tale. A discussion of the performative value, or validity, of each account is linked to questions of accountability - to funding bodies, to participants in the research process, to the authors themselves, their peers and other potential beneficiaries. The paper concludes that writing about empirical research from a poststructural perspective can be a risky undertaking

Accountability · Accounting research · Economics · Educational research · Empirical research · Epistemology · Flexibility (engineering · Management · Pedagogy · Performative utterance · Political science · Public relations · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Law · Reflective Practices in Education · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies · Accounting

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Unique citing works1
Citations per year0,04
Citation span2002 - 2002 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 1
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