Critical Sense-Making and Critical Policy Analysis: An Integrated Framework for Research in Education

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Three
  In Roundtable Session: Advancing Organizational Theory in Education: Institutional Logics, Critical Sense-Making, and the Social Organization of Schools (Table 16)

Abstract

Critical research on education policy has struggled to take comprehensive approaches to the complex interaction between different levels of policy. In this paper, I integrate critical policy analysis and critical sensemaking to understand how organizational structures constrain and influence individual sensemaking. The effect of this integration is to see and understand how meaning-making opportunities, from long-term, formally constructed learning opportunities to micro-moments and split-second decisions, are directly influenced by policy structures at all aggregate levels.

Author

• Brett Baldauf, University of Washington
  Presenting Author