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Keywords

Neoliberalism
audit culture
goal setting
ego orientation
mastery orientation

How to Cite

Rinehart, R. E. (2016). Neoliberalism, audit culture, and teachers: Empowering goal setting in an audit culture. Teachers and Curriculum, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.15663/tandc.v16i1.128

Abstract

In this paper, I discuss the concepts of neoliberalism and audit culture, and how they affect teaching culture. Moreover, I propose a form of goal setting that, if used properly, will hopefully work to combat some of the more onerous aspects of neoliberalism and audit clture in education
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