Malignant Accountability

March 7, 2013

• Location: Auditiorium 1180, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street
• Speaker: Yael Tamir, President of Shenkar College, Ramat Gan, Israel former Minister of Education, State of Israel
• Sponsors: Centre for Ethics, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, School of Public Policy & Governance and the Department of Political Science

In democratic societies, it is important that public institutions be held accountable for their performance. But once political distrust of public institutions takes hold, it can unleash new forms of monitoring and measurement that distort institutional purposes, corrupting the practice that they were meant to control and improve. These dynamics are especially evident in the field of education, where their implications for the future of our democracies are also especially troubling.

This event is free and open to the public.

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