MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
& The School of Language, Social and Political Sciences

Wednesday 12 October 3-4pm LOCKE 313

ZOOM:    https://canterbury.zoom.us/j/96723508839

KateRussell Bailey, PhD student

An exploration of how prospective sensemaking shapes the beginning of a strategic change process designed to embed equity pedagogy within New Zealand tertiary education providers

This study plans to use ‘prospective sensemaking’ as an analytical lens through which to uncover the beliefs and understandings held by organizational actors (i.e., senior decision-makers, teachers, teaching support staff and other kaimahi) within the context of an important change within a network of tertiary organisations. These vocational providers are on the verge of instituting significant measures designed to decolonise learning and teaching processes within Aotearoa New Zealand.

By analysing the values, beliefs and mental schemas held by these actors as they embark upon a sensemaking process elicited by a range of documents and other communications from the head organisation, this research will shed light upon how individuals construct the meanings and understandings that underpin their enacted responses to organizational change – whether they embrace, oppose or ignore it.