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Author(s)
Chi-Hu Tien
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DOI:10.17265/2161-623X/2018.02.001
Affiliation(s)
Hungkuang University, Taichung, Taiwan
ABSTRACT
Program planning is the
major channel currently utilized to achieve excellent standards in adult
educational practice. Through well-planned programs, adult education policies
can be implemented, organizational goals can be realized, learners’ behaviors can be
positively altered, and their abilities enhanced. It is worth emphasizing that
traditional models of program planning applying linear paths do not explain a
multitude of situations that occur in reality. This is largely due to the fact
that linear models generally ignore the role and influence of political factors
in the program planning processes. Centered on the perspective of power and
interest negotiation in
program planning and utilizing a case study approach, this study
investigated and analyzed the program planning processes of a Ph.D. Cohort program in an
American university in Taiwan.
In addition to transforming the power and interest
negotiation perspective into a diagram to interpret
the case, four new discoveries were made. Firstly, interests should be further divided into tangible and
intangible interests. Secondly, timing was found to be an additional factor that
influences various stakeholders in the program planning process. Thirdly, stakeholders of “invisible” intangible
interests may influence the program-planning process. Finally, the degree of
power was determined to be the major impact factor in the program planning
process.
KEYWORDS
program planning, power, interest negotiation
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