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It's also interesting that 'my assumptions' are in part based on several lengthy discussions with my mum who is in her 80s are believed she sees this pattern regularly.

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It's not old people bashing. I said an aging population, that isn't just the old per se. There are people 'my age', but plenty of older people as well who I engage with who do look back in this way (and many who don't). Perhaps read Gardini's work before disregarding the thesis out of hand.

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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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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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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Thing is you can claim an exam is the best way of assessing children because they assess the quality and degree of retrieval - job done 🫤

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Is it because the models of learning that have become popular are a simplistic input/output system, where retrieval becomes the sole measure of quality of output?

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.

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'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)

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

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

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An amazing book. Just finished a very close read and lots to really reflect on and embed in my work

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

This is particularly true where organizations try to do too much change - hyperchange, leading to a lack of energy and revisiting. Why normalisation process theory has real potential as we found out in a recent change project with local schools.

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

'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)

Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

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!!

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Lovely sunset to finish the week

Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

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.

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

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.

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Our book will very much grow out of this really crucial observation. Hence it's working title: 'Leadership, organisation and the sustainability of teacher work '.

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@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.

Yep, possibly. I'm coming at it from a processual perspective, all actions emerge from past events. I think this was why I put the idea of the Formal Org being static - it's slow moving & change is hard (though nominally lots of it!) But would be worthwhile thinking how to make it more explicit

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And the next step is to integrate humans more explicitly as @draimeequicks.bsky.social keeps pointing out my models often lack this 🤔

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

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A first sketch out of a schematic of The Dissociative Organisation

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Both organisations are needed, but their form, focus and relationships need to change if we are to develop more positive and sustainable organisations where change is sustainable, considered and positively normalised.

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to operate. But there has been incremental encroachment, mainly due to New Public Managerialism leading to micromanagement and hence far less space for the Ghost Organisation to operate. This is why universities seem to be in crisis, and in schools, why there is a recruitment and retention crisis.

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so as to make space for the real innovation required, but which would be blocked due to policies created in the Formal Organisation. The balance between the two organisations has shifted. Twenty or so years ago the Formal Organisation was small and this gave the Ghost Organisation plenty of space

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2) The Ghost Organisation - this is where real change takes place, emergent, local, non-linear. The Ghost Organisation is fluid, often working round the Formal Organisation, supplying it with the information it wants, even though it's either repurposed or invented,

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but with ever larger bureaucracy, this has also led to unsustainable hyper change, as managers all have to prove they are bringing transformative change.

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These tend to lead to linear, complicated processes which are clear, multiple but ultimately ontologically misguided. In large organisations they also assume that all change comes from insights and projects driven hierarchically. Hence, assumes a form of punctuated equilibrium,

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

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.

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Some thoughts and reflections on leadership in education.

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Stunning sunset this evening

Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

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.

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

One of our papers (me and @draimeequicks.bsky.social) is finally in print bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Beautiful late afternoon after the storm

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saying they are problematic but by understanding their processual complexity it might open up new ways of doing them differently, or not!

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A deep processual research approach is partly focused on reopening the originality & depth of these activities to try to understand their richness in new and interesting ways so as to expose things like the cultural assumptions, the communication central to their emergence etc. It's not necessarily

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their strengths, weaknesses and possible areas for reflection and change.

often become partially hidden, processes taking place without a great deal of analysis as they've become part of a culture. Deep processual research attempts to uncover the patterns and explore them more consciously in an attempt to understand the complexity, the tangles, and in so doing consider

I think it exposes the processes which become so embedded in organisations much of the detail of the processes which constitute them go essentially unseen. For example, annual performance management and improvement planning are both highly complex and involved a multitude of processes. But they are

'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)

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increasingly obvious, and are ultimately leading to the creeping collapse of the system.

led, inclusive, holistic system which would nurture child development and help all kids find a positive place in society. Done schools still do this, and do it really well, but they do do against a ride set in Whitehall imo. The last government created a social darwinist system - the impacts are now

systems appear to be built to marginalise and stigmatise them. I see this as the result of a quadi-marketised system which has emerged as a corporate culture with Taylorist perspectives and in some cases children effectively being told that if they don't fit they're to blame. Far from a community

the longer term impacts of the pandemic, the decimation of allied services, the continued treadmill of satisfying Ofsted, the retention and recruitment crises and lack of funding and investment - is it a surprise that a growing number of kids don't see where they fit in a system where in some cases