Not to be conflated with systems of accountability, this book examines responsibility as a subject of educational inquiry.

Hannah Spector is Associate Professor of Education at Penn State University, The Capital College, USA.

Introduction: Meanings of Responsibility in Context 1. Bureaucracy, Responsibility, and Education 2. The Imagination as Teacher 3. Exceptionally American Visions: On Human Rights and Genocide Education 4. Curriculum of Common Sense in Times of Plague 5. A Responsibility Like No Other Epilogue to Postscript: Mortality: "The Miracle that Saves the World"?