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Policy Language as Paradigm:An Organizational Theory
Perspective of No Child Left Behind
Jennifer Lynn McKinnon
Sonoma State/UC Davis
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“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
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“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
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Organizational Theory
14 key organizational characteristics
7 linear/rational 7 non-linear/complex
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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
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Linear/rational
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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
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No Child Left Behind—Linear and Non-Linear Characteristics
91% Linear
9% Non-Linear
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Linear Organizational Characteristics
Sanc-tions Other Linear
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Emerging values and patterns
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I am not in control
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PatternsVision, principles, values
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ResourcesCapacity Building
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Process and information exchange orientation
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RelationshipsRoutines that are set up for information
exchanges
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Information exchange keeps anxiety in check
helps with the ambiguity of an unpredictable world
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Transparent communication is for Sensemaking
NotJudgment/Sanction Purposes
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“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
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Jennifer Lynn [email protected]
Policy as Paradigm: An Organizational Theory Perspective of No Child Left Behind
Dissertation available from: Proquest/UMIOr upon request through email above