Political Economy As A Conceptual Framework For The Analysis Of School-University Cooperation

Abstract

This article presents a further explication of school-university cooperation, a subject initially addressed by these authors in the Summer, 1982 issue of this Journal. Political economy theory is used as a framework for analyzing the interorganizational relationship peculiar to school-university cooperative efforts. Specific cooperative projects are examined in terms of domain and ideological consensus, interorganizational evaluation and work coordination; and their combined effect on resource maintenance/acquisition and political authority/power. Implications for practitioners, administrators and educational theorists are drawn.