organization and organizing of social pedagogical organizations – Why are they all Alike?

Author(s):

Klaus Kasper Kofod(presenting / submitting)

Conference:

ECER 2013

Network:

26. Educational Leadership

Format:

Paper

Session Information

26 SES 13 A, Organizations, Financing and Markets

Paper Session

Time:

2013-09-13

11:00-12:30

Room:

D-306

Chair:

Lawrence Drysdale

Contribution

Paper proposal: organization and organizing of social pedagogical organizations – Why are they all Alike?

Ph.d. Associate professor

Klaus Kasper Kofod

Aarhus University

Faculty if Arts

Department of Education and Pedagogy

Tuborgvej 164

2400 Copenhagen NV

kako@dpu.dk

The research question is in the title of the paper: why seem social pedagogical institutions to be organized in pretty the same ways regardless of their size, the composition of their inhabitants, or their location?

The aim of the paper is to analyse organizing and organization of social pedagogical organizations. When analyzing social work organizations there seems to be general traits or organization principles that are common for such organizations. There may be many explanations why it is so. It may be due to structural similarities, similarities in their objectives, in the composition of their inhabitants, their location or other reasons.

The paper investigates Danish social pedagogical organizations’ organizing principles and tries to give possible explanations of why there apparently are so many common organizing traits across organizations regardless of their differences.

The research topic is a research and development project in Denmark of 9 social pedagogical organizations in 6 municipalities that focuses on a development and adjustment of the co called ‘It matters’ therapeutic ideology from the 1980’ies to the present day.

The relevance of the paper and the project to European educational research is that it may inspire other European researchers in discussing the organizing a development of social pedagogical organizations: are the Danish results generic or specific and dependent national cultures?

Method

The theoretical and methodological framework is a mix method approach with in depth interviews with leaders, employees, and relatives at each of the participating organizations, self-reporting on own organization from the leaders, document analysis, analysis of participating organizations’ home pages, and supervisions reports. The theoretical approach will be an organizational structural and new institutionalistic approach.

Expected Outcomes

The expected conclusions/findings are that despite differences in municipalities, differences in sizes of the participating organizations, and differences in profiles of the resident groups there is many similarities in organizing principles and practical organizing of these organizations. And that organizational structural and a new institutionalist analysis may yield an answer to the research question.

References

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Author Information

Klaus Kasper Kofod (presenting / submitting)

School of Education, University of Aarhus, Denmark

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