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Are Transformation And Power Shifts All Or Nothing Events?, Jacqlyn S. Triscari
Are Transformation And Power Shifts All Or Nothing Events?, Jacqlyn S. Triscari
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper represents a qualitative case study conducted in one organization. It examines the role of power and shifts of power in an organization during an organizational transformation, a very specific form of change in which the center core or the worldview of the organization is altered.
Organizational Change? Organizational Development? Organizational Transformation?: Why Do We Care What We Call It?, Jacqlyn S. Triscari
Organizational Change? Organizational Development? Organizational Transformation?: Why Do We Care What We Call It?, Jacqlyn S. Triscari
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper represents a literature review on the topic of organizational change. It argues that how we label a specific type of organizational change has an impact on how we both view the change and the potential outcome. The focus here is on transformational change—a change that occurs at the center core of the organization and results in substantial change to the center core of the organization, impacting the currently held beliefs and assumptions.
Web 2.0 Technologies: Disruptive Or Liberating For Adult Education?, Rita Kop
Web 2.0 Technologies: Disruptive Or Liberating For Adult Education?, Rita Kop
Adult Education Research Conference
Adult educators have been reluctant to engage with the latest second generation Internet technologies. New ideas on how these technologies could reform the structure and processes of adult education are examined in relation to Illich’s educational vision from the 1970s.
Reorienting To Expectations Of Change, Elizabeth Grigoriu
Reorienting To Expectations Of Change, Elizabeth Grigoriu
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper explains implicit and explicit theoretical assumptions of change and an emerging reorientation to expectations of change by using activity and meaning making theory to uncover a more expanded, integrated understanding of our expectations of change. The purpose of this reorganization is to better navigate social interactions as practitioner theorists.