A Community College's Performance of "Organisation": It's a Drag!

Autor/inn/en	Rooney, Donna; Rhodes, Carl; Boud, David
Titel	A Community College's Performance of "Organisation": It's a Drag!
Quelle	In: Studies in the Education of Adults, 42 (2010) 1, S.18-33 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0266-0830
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Community Colleges; College Administration; Public Education; Adult Education; Gender Issues; Perspective Taking; Private Sector; Community Education; Organizational Culture; Economic Climate; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Community college; Community College; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Öffentliche Erziehung; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Geschlechterfrage; Zukunftsperspektive; Privater Sektor; ; Gemeinschaftserziehung; Nachbarschaftserziehung; Unternehmenskultur; Wirtschaftslage; Australien
Abstract	Noting the ever-increasing encroachment of discourses and practices from the private sector on public education providers, this paper argues that such organizations exist within competing sets of differences that seek to define and fix the meaning of "education" and "business". We report on fieldwork conducted in an adult education college in Sydney. In the Australian context these colleges are referred to as community colleges and their history is one based in a strong liberal tradition. Utilising Judith Butler's idea of "drag" we consider the effects of changing modes of governance in the college with specific reference to the stories told to us about it. Our discussion suggests that the organisation was caught between identifying itself with a masculinised discourse of business and a discourse of community cast as its feminised other. In navigating between these, the college was seen to perform as a "drag king"--an organisation performing the masculine but in so doing, undoing its gendered status. This leads us to suggest that the incorporation of business and market-based discourse into the management of community education is something that is actively resisted and undermined through such forms of gendered transgression. We conclude by proposing that this organization's capacity to perform drag is a contributing factor to its overall success, and particularly in an economic climate where many not-for-profit organisations are floundering. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10