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Policy Language as Paradigm: An Organizational Theory Perspective of No Child Left Behind

Policy Language as Paradigm: An Organizational Theory Perspective of No Child Left Behind. Jennifer Lynn McKinnon Sonoma State/UC Davis.

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Policy Language as Paradigm: An Organizational Theory Perspective of No Child Left Behind

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  1. Policy Language as Paradigm:An Organizational Theory Perspective of No Child Left Behind Jennifer Lynn McKinnon Sonoma State/UC Davis

  2. “The new sciences are filled with tantalizing and hopeful processes that foster change. But to learn these lessons, we need to shift what we look for.” Margaret Wheatley

  3. “The priority of lines and linearities in the language is nested in the contested spaces of good and evil, truth and deception, morality and deviance.” Brent Davis and Dennis Sumara, 2005

  4. Organizational Theory 14 key organizational characteristics 7 linear/rational 7 non-linear/complex

  5. Linear/Rational • Planned highly specific goals • Efficiency and Time orientation • Reliance on measurable facts and data • Formal structures, defined roles, and uniformity • Hierarchical Supervision • Sanctions and Rewards • Predictability

  6. Linear/rational

  7. Non-linear/complex Organizational Characteristics • Emerging values and patterns • Process and information exchange orientation • Utilization of tensions, patterns, response to the environment • Acceptance of unpredictability • Utilization of diversity • Interdependence • Local context and expertise

  8. No Child Left Behind—Linear and Non-Linear Characteristics

  9. Linear Organizational Characteristics

  10. Emerging values and patterns

  11. I am not in control

  12. Patterns Vision, principles, values

  13. Resources Capacity Building

  14. Process and information exchange orientation

  15. Relationships Routines that are set up for information exchanges

  16. Information exchange keeps anxiety in check helps with the ambiguity of an unpredictable world

  17. Transparent communication is for Sensemaking Not Judgment/Sanction Purposes

  18. “We need to find a different set of words, a different way of saying so we see and think differently, and a different way to imagine more energetically.” Karl Weick, 2009

  19. Jennifer Lynn McKinnon jlynnmckinnon@gmail.com Policy as Paradigm: An Organizational Theory Perspective of No Child Left Behind Dissertation available from: Proquest/UMI Or upon request through email above

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