It's great to come across a book where someone is exploring the idea of processual complexity - the very same idea I've been laying with for the past four years.
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Fascinated by what change is and how it occurs. Using process philosophy and complexity to think about how we can better understand change in work, especially in education.
The current wave of populism in the UK is in part about inequalities, but I think it is as much if not more due to the nostalgia of an aging population for a mythical time when everything was better. Populists sell them a picture of a time that never existed but which they identify with.
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When you read about the process through which Finland created its current national curriculum, you realise what a poor, poor process we have in this country in comparison.
'being in the flow of time implies relentless interweaving of present, past, and future among flows of on-going processes.' Hernes (2022)
'The most fundamental problems in organizational research relate to various forms of continuity and change, both of which are inextricably linked to time.' Hernes (2022)
Looking at government decisions & policy it is apparent that we have a C19th structure using linear thinking which is wholly inadequate for a complex context which requires interdepartmental thinking. Our system of government and the political ecosystem which surrounds it is woefully out of date
An amazing book. Just finished a very close read and lots to really reflect on and embed in my work
'attempts at organizational change tend to be unsuccessful, not because actors fail to see that they are needed or important, but because they tend to fizzle out as the energy and commitment around a course of action is not re-created at successive presents.' Hernes (2014:169)
In a world that will eventually need to choose between barbarian and ecological socialism, there are some days when I can't help but think that we're heading towards barbarism!!
The more I listen to others talk about work, the more I'm convinced that a core problem is that if time - time linked to change, to workload, and to accountability. We need to fundamentally change our understanding of time in organisations or the problems we face will become evermore acute.
The English ITE review and accreditation kicked into action over two years ago, and I'm sure those involved in policy saw them as events. However, those events have triggered a whole tangle of ongoing processes which are still not wholly understood or complete - policy is processual.
@draimeequicks.bsky.social, Matt Barley and I have started writing our new book this week. A central jumping off pint is Ron Glatter's paper from 2006 where he argues that leadership interests need to be embedded in a consideration of organisation rather than being too self-referential.
Huw Humphreys from University East London has helped me sharpen my thinking on organisations. Now thinking in terms of a Dissociative-Integrative Organisation spectrum model. The more dissociative end looks something like this
A first sketch out of a schematic of The Dissociative Organisation
Beginning to play with the idea of the 'Disassociative Educational Organisation ', based on the idea that organisations are made up of two parts 1) The Formal Organisation - that of manager-leaders focused on planned change and hence plans, dataveillance, performance management etc.
Try to watch Call My Bluff every Monday on BBC4. It's one way of remembering my Dad. When we were kids we'd watch it with him. As a linguist fluent in a range of languages it was obviously pure joy for him every week and his enthusiasm would rub off on us. Still love it.
One of our papers (me and @draimeequicks.bsky.social) is finally in print bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
'Scripted processes are...fundamental to organizations and, yet, through their sheer ubiquity, are often seen as mundane, and overlooked or taken for granted.' Jarzabkowski, Le and Spee (2017:241)
Issues of recruitment and retention in the English education system are systemic and complex. Using some form of 'Officer Krupke' approach really won't work.
Thinking about what a processual analysis of a Nobel would look like. Novels are essentially a tangled,emergent flow of experiences; tangles of different characters' experiences, tangles of past, present and future experiences and the art of the writer centres on how they create the tangles and the
'While a 'snapshot epistemology' may be suitable for ontologically stable entities such as buildings, it may be less appropriate to understand emergent processes, such as change, creativity, learning, and knowing.' Reinecke and Ansari (2017: 407)
Heraclitus reflects that we can never step into the same river twice - the flow of water makes the river ever different. We need to see organisational change more like this. Popular models often see change like a tap, something leaders can turn on and off. And when off, change doesn't occur.