FINAL SEMINAR

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• FINAL SEMINAR
• Methodology

Venue Estonian Employers Confederation. Kiriku
6. 10130 Tallinn
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Methodology Supporting key project objectives

• To explore and understand the partnership
  dynamics of lifelong learning partnerships
  profiles value systems
• To explore and understand the relationship
  between LLL partnerships and policy -
  particularly how this relationship does and could
  support innovation
• To investigate the relationship between formal
  and informal learning within LLL partnerships
• Exploring and reviewing how LLL partnerships
  operate at different levels European, national,
  regional and local

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The methodology is intended to.

• Build a model to define the characteristics of
  partnerships and partnership dynamics (for
  example organizational, cultural, values,
  expectations)
• Identify and analyse the forces that lead to LLL
  partnership formation at the EU, national,
  regional and local levels
• Illustrate and understand partnership structures,
  dynamics and driving forces
• Develop a model to promote, develop and evaluate
  partnerships
• Provide inputs to designing validation procedures
  and instruments
• Provide inputs to designing a collaborative
  learning platform and procedures to promote
  collaborative learning within and between LLL
  partnerships

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Definition of partnership

• Sustained, inter-organisational arrangements that
  are trying to achieve some more or less agreed
  goals

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Partnerships are expected to ....

• Reduce conflict increase coordination
• Deliver better services
• Control costs and improve quality
• Customise for the customer
• Achieve social and economic goals

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Some different types of partnerships

• Joint ventures e.g. Healthy Schools
• Alliances e.g. Star Alliance Training Programme
• Coalitions e.g. SAS
• (Surfers Against Sewage)
• Concordats/compacts e.g. Riga concordat
• Networks e.g. European Distance Education
  Network (EDEN)
• Clusters Cambridge Science Park
• Supply chains e.g. Learn Direct

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Partnerships are expected to provide

• A shared vision and shared objectives
• Interdependence and a clear division of labour
• Trust and sustained trust building
• Equitable distribution of costs, risks and
  benefits
• Equality or the empowerment of weak partners
• Mutual adjustment and learning over time

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The optimists and the pessimists

• The pessimists Hobbesian, free-riding,
  rent-seeking (Olsen)
• The modified pessimists trust can be learned -
  quid pro quo games theory, process based trust
  (Axelrod, Zucker)
• Optimists Altruism, value-based coordination,
  mutual not self interest (Adler, Alter Hage)

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Partnership as power dynamics

• We cannot ignore that power can be hidden behind
  the facade of trust and the rhetoric of
  collaboration and used to promote vested
  interests through the manipulation of and
  capitulation by weaker partners
• (Clegg Hardy 1996)

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The Environment
The Partnership
Partner B
Partner A
Leadership
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Socio-technical systems

• Emery Trist (1960) - Tavistock
• Open Systems
• Origins in biology social darwinism
• Interdependency parts processes in
  organisation inter-related change in one leads
  to changes throughout
• Organisations also inter-dependent with external
  world political economy (Katz Kahn, 1966)

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The hidden life or partnerships

• Individuals take psychodynamic tensions
  infantile processes anxieties into organisation
• Most evident in interactions with authority
  figures
• Shape responses to hierarchies and authority -
  trust resistance compliance

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Other theoretical models to understand
partnerships

• Sociological e.g. legal rules and how these
  relate to norms and values
• Ethnomethodological constructing a common
  reality and obedience to group authority
• Critical theory constructed through
  communicative practices and power

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Forces shaping LLL partnerships
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MODEL TOOLBOX

• 6- step exercise
• 1.- polarities questionnaire
• 2.- Profile/ Pedagogy/Outcomes Table
• 3.- Assessment Questionnaire (indicators)
• 4.- Transformative Analysis (if needed)
• 5.- Improvement Plan
• 6.- Evaluation Assessment

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MODEL
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Profiling
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Mapping partnership dynamics
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Pedagogic mapping
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Outputs mapping