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Power as Resource, Tool, and Constraint: Examining Power in Educational Organizations

Sun, April 12, 1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT), Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, Los Cerritos

Session Type: Symposium

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Power characterizes the struggle to advance political interests in educational organizations. Approaches to wielding such influence include overt, episodic attempts to direct action and subtle, ongoing campaigns to reshape relationships. In education, power has been examined as a resource that induces coordination, a tool for dismantling inequities, and an impediment to meaningful organizational change. However, the field lacks a cohesive understanding of how power has been studied; why power imbalances persist within organizations; and when collective power has been marshalled to support resistance and initiate social transformation. In this symposium, we bring together organizational scholars who are conducting research that pushes our understanding of the many ways that power shapes educational systems at the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels.

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