ABSTRACT
Debates about responsibility and responsibilisation pervade contemporary social, political and moral life. Scholars have sought to document and account for the melange of rationalities, pressures, technologies and practices of responsibility and responsibilisation that act on and/or are taken up by individuals, groups and organisations, and how they work to both delimit and create possibilities for individual and collective freedoms. Individually, their articles consider questions of responsibility and responsibilisation in relation to different populations, from children and young people inside and outside of schools, to teachers and students and managers in higher education. Individually and collectively, they provide nuanced insights into the multiplicity of ways that responsibility and responsibilisation work differently in different educational contexts to construct particular social orders and ways of being in the world. The diverse perspectives presented in the collection reinforce the foundational principles of scholarly educational research.
