Consulting Wittgenstein
On the Quest to Administratively Regulate Counseling Therapists in Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12450474 |
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| Authors | Earon Kavanagh (a Fifth Province Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-251 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Administrative Theory & Praxis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-1806 • E-ISSN: 1949-0461 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2753/atp1084-1806320206 |
| OpenAlex | W2047138249 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article addresses an important dilemma for postmodern public administration. The case involves a public clash of modern and postmodern sensibilities around knowledge and rights to participation when counseling practitioner associations with different practice viewpoints attempted to organize in the Canadian province of British Columbia. This topic is important and provides a glimpse into organizing processes as a field of practice moves from informality (e.g., unregulated) to formality (regulated and perhaps bureaucratized). It also addresses what the philosopher Wittgenstein referred to as different "language games" as "forms of life," advancing their proponents' positions during a competitive organizing effort to achieve social validation. It demonstrates how language games are interwoven with power, defined here as the capacity to act in various ways, and mobilized by each group to protect its interests. Several interventions are explored toward achieving greater collaboration and resolving the public dilemma
Dilemma · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Formality · Political science · Postmodernism · Power (physics · Public relations · Sociology · Viewpoints · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Public Administration
| Highly cited | No |
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