Shifting Responsibilities: Researching Accountability in Three Acts

Authors

  • Lisa Weems

Abstract

In this paper, I utilize Nancy Frazier's conception of multiple publics to investigate the terrain of educational research and how educational researchers might utilize such a framework to think differently about our work.  I envision this framework as a problematic of "shifting responsibilities" in terms of what has been done and what is necessary to move forward.  Shifting responsibilities suggests that the discourse practices of "accountability" are not static or fixed, but rather consist of rhetoric and imagery that is invoked at particular times and spaces to refer to how various citizen-subjects can and should be responsible to educational publics.

Author Biography

Lisa Weems

Lisa Weems is an Associate Professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.  She holds a joint appointment in the Western program for Interdisciplinary Studies and the Department of Educational Leadership. Weems teaches courses in qualitative research methodology and feminist transnational cultural studies.  Her current research focuses on the role of imperialism and heteropatriachy in the construction of girlhood.

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Published

2010-12-08