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School Boards as Sites of Discourse, Legitimation, and Racialized Institutional Logics Amid Democratic Unrest
Wed, April 8, 11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT), JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 1Session Type: Roundtable Session
Abstract
In recent years, the importance of school boards has reemerged as influential arenas of local governance, where stakeholders formulate, negotiate, and contest novel reform initiatives. While organizational theories offer a robust conceptual tool kit for understanding such processes, their application within the education literature writ large, and board-centric scholarship specifically, remains limited. This gap constrains our understanding of how school governance structures facilitate or undermine local reform initiatives. To advance the field, we bring together education policy scholars who leverage mixed methodologies and draw on organizational perspectives to study school board governance. In doing so, these papers provide insight into how the evolving political, cultural, and technological landscape is (re)shaping school board dynamics, routines, and reform discourses.
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California School Boards and Their Members’ Experiences in Dynamic Times - Beth Schueler, University of Virginia; Julie A. Marsh, University of Southern California; James C. Bridgeforth, University of Delaware; Jeimee Estrada-Miller, University of Southern California
The Tensions of Technological Shifts on School Board Governance and Practice - James C. Bridgeforth, University of Delaware; Akunna Faith Uka, University of Southern California; Amanda Lauren Pickett, University of Delaware; Julie A. Marsh, University of Southern California; Miguel Casar, University of Alabama; Laura Steen Mulfinger, University of Southern California; Jacob Alonso, University of Southern California
“It’s Like Cutting Down a Beautiful Tree and Putting it in Concrete”: Examining the Logics Shaping a School Merger Debate - Esi Bissah, University of California - Irvine; Jomar M. Lopes, University of California - Irvine; Eupha Jeanne Daramola, University of California - Irvine
(De-)Legitimizing Ethnic Studies: A Discourse Analysis of Board-Community Member Interactions - Jomar M. Lopes, University of California - Irvine
How School Boards Utilize Organizational Routines During Moments of Tension - Eupha Jeanne Daramola, University of California - Irvine; James C. Bridgeforth, University of Delaware