Bob L. Johnson, Jr.

Bob L. Johnson, Jr.
Professor and
Director of Graduate Studies
585-3904

Ph.D., Louisiana State University (1991) - Teaching interests and responsibilities: Politics of Education, Education Policy Analysis, Policy and Program Evaluation, Organizational Theory, and Research Design and Methods. Research Interests: schools as organizations, the politics of education, the politics of educational change and reform, micro-politics, educational policy analysis, teacher evaluation policy and public choice theory.

Courses and Course Syllabi:
ELP 6010 Analytic Methods
ELP 6030 Introducation to Research Design
ELP 6050 Program Evaluation
ELP 6430 Politics of Education
ELP 7020 Logic of Theory Development
ELP 7040 Logic, Methods and Techniques of Quantitative Methods
ELP 7240 Organizational Theory
ELP 7440 Education Policy Studies

Johnson, Jr., Bob L. (forthcoming). Beyond groupthink in the study of learning environments: connecting the field to other literatures. Queensland Journal of Education.

Fauske, Janice R. and Johnson, Jr. Bob L. (forthcoming). Principals response to the school environment: Fluidity, alignment, vigilance, and fear. In Wayne K. Hoy and Cecil Miskel, editors, Theory and Research in Educational Administration. A volume in Research and Theory in Educational Administration. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

Johnson, Jr., Bob L. (2003). Those nagging headaches: Perennial issues and tensions in the politics of education field. Education Administration Quarterly 39 1 (February 2003): 41-67.

Johnson, Jr. Bob L. (2001). The micro-political dynamics of education interests: A view from within. Educational Policy 15 1 (January-March): 115-134.

Johnson, Jr., Bob L and J. R. Fauske (2000). Principals and the political economy of environmental enactment. Educational Administration Quarterly 36(2): 159-185.

Johnson, Jr., Bob L. (1999). The politics of research-information use in the education policy. Educational Policy 13 1 (January-March): 23-36.

Johnson, Jr., Bob L. (1999). Great expectations but politics as usual: The rise and fall of the Louisiana teacher evaluation policy. Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education 13(4): 361-381.

Johnson, Jr., Bob L. (1998). Creating quality schools: Rethinking the meaning and strategies for restructuring. Toward the Year 2000: Leadership for Quality Schools. Rodney Muth and Michael Martin, editors. Lancaster, PA: Technomic Publishing Company, pp. 49-58.

Johnson, Jr., Bob L. (1998). Resource dependence theory: A political economy model of organizations. International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration. Jay Shafritz, Editor in Chief. New York: Henry Holt Company. Volume 4: pp. 1969-1974.

Johnson, Jr., Bob L. (1998) Organizing for collaboration: A reconsideration of some basic organizing principles. In Diana G. Pounder, editor, Restructuring Schools for Collaboration: Promises and Pitfalls. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, pp. 9-26.

Johnson, Jr. Bob L. (1997). Reconsidering the educational restructuring process: An exercise in retrospective sense-making. Journal of School Leadership 7(6): 540.568.

Johnson, Jr., Bob L. (1997). An organizational analysis of multiple perspectives of effective teaching: Implications for teacher evaluation policy. Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education 11(1): 69-87.