coe-staff: Tina Trujillo Colloquium: The Modern Cult of Efficiency, Fri 4/1/16 @ 11:30am

[Denise McKenney]

Educational Methodology, Policy and Leadership (EMPL) is pleased to announce the following colloquium as part of the Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series:

Tina Trujillo
University of California, Berkeley

The Modern Cult of Efficiency:
Intermediary Organizations and the New Scientific Management

Friday, April 1, 2016
ED 119Lokey Education Bldg
11:30am - 1:00pm
Lunch provided

In this talk, Dr. Trujillo shares the findings from her study of one prominent intermediary organization in public education. She draws on concepts from critical policy studies to frame the agency's behaviors amid a discourse of managerialism in the public sector, and critical studies of education markets to explain the relationships between its reforms and education policy. She details findings that illustrate how the intermediary enacted managerial data monitoring systems as the core drivers of its reforms; how it framed leadership and teaching as reductive, managerialist pursuits; and why its reliance on business-inspired logics, roles, and language enabled it to compete in a marketplace and preserve its industry niche. In this way, its behaviors resembled those of the "efficiency experts" during the United States' industrial revolution after the turn of the century. The result was a public sector organization that erroneously equated data with professional judgment, and that guided decisions based not on a century's worth of evidence about the limitations of purely managerial reforms, but on an enduring ideological faith in technocratic solutions to complex social problems.


Biography
Tina Trujillo is an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Education, and the Faculty Director of UC Berkeley's Principal Leadership Institute. She earned her Ph.D. in Education from UCLA and her M.A. in Education from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She uses tools from political science and critical policy studies to study the political dimensions of urban district reform, the instructional and democratic consequences of high-stakes testing and accountability policies for students of color and English Learners, and trends in urban educational leadership. Her work is published in a range of journals, including American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, Journal of Educational Administration, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
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