Sept' 14th Diigo Response: Janice Stein on the ethics of responsibility and accountability - Audio Lecture - 5 views

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  #1 Ash Maher on 14 Sep 13

   

  Stein suggests that responsibility and accountability has changed in today's world. She highlights how we take these terms and use them according to the situation. She does this by alluding to the individual and the system. Personally I understand the topic by looking at myself and school, I the individual and school the system. Suppose if my grades fall or I begin to lose interest in what I am doing. Do I as an individual take responsibility and work accordingly or do I take the easy route and pin point this change in heart as a result of the school (I hold the system accountable and that it was their responsibility)? I could blame the system and dispose of my responsibility by highlighting the faults and use them as a crutch to argue my point. Or from the other side of the fence am I as the individual responsible and there for accountable because I chose this path and now have to hit the expectations established. Am I accountable for my interests and success in school and the school responsible for providing me with the resources and capabilities to do so? In many ways I found this article interesting because I was able to relate with the topic in so much it is how I sometimes feel. I tend to procrastinate and wander away from my responsibilities and blame the fact that much of life isn't worth it at the end of the day (again the individual and the system). But then I am also reminded that it is also still worth it as if I do nothing and continue to not care I simply become a part of the system in a fashion less desirable. At least if I am productive I can make a change somewhere through this (school) and taking responsibility and being accountable rather than doing nothing and passing on responsibility and holding something else accountable for which in truth in terms of definition is intimate.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Stein suggests that responsibility and accountability has changed in today's world. She highlights how we take these terms and use them according to the situation. She does this by alluding to the individual and the system. Personally I understand the topic by looking at myself and school, I the individual and school the system. Suppose if my grades fall or I begin to lose interest in what I am doing. Do I as an individual take responsibility and work accordingly or do I take the easy route and pin point this change in heart as a result of the school (I hold the system accountable and that it was their responsibility)? I could blame the system and dispose of my responsibility by highlighting the faults and use them as a crutch to argue my point. Or from the other side of the fence am I as the individual responsible and there for accountable because I chose this path and now have to hit the expectations established. Am I accountable for my interests and success in school and the school responsible for providing me with the resources and capabilities to do so? In many ways I found this article interesting because I was able to relate with the topic in so much it is how I sometimes feel. I tend to procrastinate and wander away from my responsibilities and blame the fact that much of life isn't worth it at the end of the day (again the individual and the system). But then I am also reminded that it is also still worth it as if I do nothing and continue to not care I simply become a part of the system in a fashion less desirable. At least if I am productive I can make a change somewhere through this (school) and taking responsibility and being accountable rather than doing nothing and passing on responsibility and holding something else accountable for which in truth in terms of definition is intimate.</div>

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