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ERIC Number: EJ1042617
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0266-7363
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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.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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