Associate Professor
Department of Educational Studies (EDST)
Dr. Poole’s work focuses on the impacts of neo-liberal education policy on K-12 schools, collective learning and organizational change in schools, teacher unionism, and intersections among these issues. She has contributed to knowledge related to: the complexity of teachers’ unions as organizations and teachers’ union resistance to neo-liberal education policy; and the impact of neo-liberal education policy on organizational justice in schools and funding of public schools.
Contributions:
Fallon. G., & Poole, W. (2014). The emergence of a market-driven funding mechanism in K-12 education in British Columbia: creeping privatization and the eclipse of equity, Journal of Education Policy, 29(3), 302-322.
Poole, W. (2007). Intersections of organizational justice and identity under the new policy direction: Important understandings for educational leaders. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 11(1), 23-42.
Poole, W. (2007). Organizational justice as a framework for understanding union-management relations in education. Canadian Journal of Education, 30(3), 725-748.
Poole, W. (2001). The teacher union’s role in 1990s educational reform: An organizational evolution perspective. Educational Administration Quarterly, 37(2), 173-196.
Poole, W. (2000). The construction of teachers’ paradoxical interests by teacher union leaders. American Educational Research Journal, 37(1), 93-119.
Keywords:
Teacher unionism; Organizational justice; Organizational culture; Organizational change; Education policy; Neoliberalism; Education finance; Educational leadership.
wendy.poole@ubc.ca
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