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Foucauldian Iterative Learning Conversations--An Example of Organisational Change: Developing Conjoint-Work between EPS and Social Workers
Apter, Brian
Educational Psychology in Practice, v30 n4 p331-346 2014
An organisational change-process in a UK local authority (LA) over two years is examined using transcribed excerpts from three meetings. The change-process is analysed using a Foucauldian analytical tool--Iterative Learning Conversations (ILCS). An Educational Psychology Service was changed from being primarily an education-focussed service-provider for children and families, to having a broader multi-agency focus, exemplified in conjoint work with the Social Care department of the LA in non-educational contexts, particularly in changes in working arrangements with children and young people (C&YP) who use Harmful Sexual Behaviour (HSB), and with their families. It is proposed that change-process models used by educational psychologists do not adequately take account of the exercise of power within organisational-change discourse. An exemplar of organisational change described is revealed using ILCS to be an ineluctable top-down innovation, idiosyncratically commissioned and forcefully driven by senior managers in the organisation.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Educational Psychology, Psychologists, Social Work, Caseworkers, Change Agents, Discourse Analysis, Educational Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Sexuality, Power Structure, Resistance to Change, Change Strategies, Problem Solving, Action Research, Constructivism (Learning)
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