Exploring feelings about technology integration in higher education

Purpose - This study aims to utilize two key psychoanalytical concepts - individuation and congruence - in order to analyze individual responses to organizational change and to propose a tentative framework for considering psychoanalytical dynamics when organizational change is proposed, or underway...

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Published in:Journal of organizational change management 2013-03, Vol.26 (2), p.326-339
Main Authors: Risquez, Angelica, Moore, Sarah
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Higher education
Identity formation
Innovations
Organizational change
Pedagogy
Psychoanalysis
Science education
Studies
Teachers
Teaching
Technological change
Technology adoption
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Summary:Purpose - This study aims to utilize two key psychoanalytical concepts - individuation and congruence - in order to analyze individual responses to organizational change and to propose a tentative framework for considering psychoanalytical dynamics when organizational change is proposed, or underway.Design methodology approach - The authors analyzed 146 responses to an open-ended survey, which focused on respondents' attitudes to the introduction of learning technology in a higher educational context. The authors asked organizational members to share their views about the proposed organizational change, and clustered these anonymous responses into meaningful categories, based on the psychoanalytically relevant notions of congruence and individuation.Findings - As well as generating a proposed list of archetypes associated with individual responses to organizational change, the authors emphasize how strongly their own tentatively generated categories align with the notion of authentic individuation as an important aspect of motivated organizational behavior.Originality value - This tool could provide a useful analytical backdrop for organizational change in general, and it could help to focus organizational attention on the importance of a psychoanalytically informed discussion on change by paying attention to privately held views, and partially articulated feelings about change.
ISSN:0953-4814
1758-7816
DOI:10.1108/09534811311328371