1. First: On PowerPoint torture is not the goal… Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration Alex Gregory, The New Yorker , 9/29/2003

2. Part I: A Primer On Bureaucracy Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

3. Bureaucracy: Accomplishment or Evil? Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

15. Part II: Bureaucracy-Making and the Metaphor of Pyramid Building Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

16. Pyramid Building: An Ancient Art?... Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

17. … Or a Continuing Societal Preoccupation? Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

18. pyramids can be material constructions or creations of a more subtle and elusive sort… Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

19. A familiar image… Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

20. that contains an archetypal representation of bureaucracy: Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

21. Part III: Critiques of Bureaucracy Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration Frank Cotham, The New Yorker, 3/17/1997 “ It’s always cozy in here. We’re insulated by layers of bureaucracy.”

22. Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration from Terry Gilliam’s dystopian film Brazil

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24. Critiques of Bureaucracy: self-perpetuation & proliferation Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

25. Critiques of Bureaucracy: client frustration Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

26. Critiqes of Bureaucracy: mandatory conformity Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration Landscape with Figures , George Tooker, 1965-66

28. Critiques of Bureaucracy: the disadvantages of pyramids Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

29. Critiques of Bureaucracy: documentation overwhelms and entraps the individual Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

30. One last clip from… Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

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32. Part IV: Bureaucracy Reconsidered and, Perhaps Redeemed Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

42. Part V: Some things to think about… Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

43. Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration Schools Where are schools on the organizational continuum? bureaucratic organization (e.g., corporation) professional organization (e.g., partnership)

44. Why do schools tend to resist differentiation and to assume similar, and typically bureaucratic, organizational forms and features? Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

45. What happens within organizations and to administration when we move, or try to move, from this… Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration

46. To this…? Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration Or to this?

47. What might change in the organizational life of the school if this change were to be effected? Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa EDU 5263: Introduction to Educational Administration