The New Institutionalism in Education

Heinz-Dieter Meyer - Editor

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The New Institutionalism in Education brings together leading academics to explore the ongoing changes in K–12 and higher education in both the United States and abroad. The contributors show that current educational trends—including the increased globalization of education, the growing emphasis on educational markets and school choice, the rise of accountability systems, and the persistent influence of business groups like textbook manufacturers and test makers on educational policy—can best be understood when observed through an institutional lens. Because schools and universities are organizations that are stabilized by deeply institutionalized rules, they are subject to the enduring problem of substantive educational reform. This book gives researchers and policy analysts conceptual tools and empirical assessments to gauge the possibilities for institutional reform and innovation.

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Acknowledgments

1. Institutional Analysis and the Study of Education
Heinz-Dieter Meyer and Brian Rowan

2. The New Institutionalism and the Study of Educational Organizations: Changing Ideas for Changing Times
Brian Rowan

3. Varieties of Institutional Theory: Traditions and Prospects for Educational Research
Charles E. Bidwell

4. The Rise and Decline of the Common School as an Institution: Taking “Myth and Ceremony” Seriously
Heinz-Dieter Meyer

5. The School Improvement Industry in the United States: Why Educational Change Is Both Pervasive and Ineffectual
Brian Rowan

6. The Institutional Environment and Instructional Practice: Changing Patterns of Guidance and Control in Public Education
James Spillane and Patricia Burch

7. The New Institutionalism Goes to the Market: The Challenge of Rapid Growth in Private K–12 Education
Scott Davies, Linda Quirke, and Janice Aurini

 8. Growing Commonalities and Persistent Differences in Higher Education: Universities between Global Models and National Legacies
Francisco O. Ramirez

9. The Worldwide Expansion of Private Higher Education: Challenges for the New Institutionalism
Daniel C. Levy

10. Institutional Change in Education: Evidence from Cross-National Comparisons
David P. Baker

11. Breaking the Institutional Mold: Faculty in the Transformation of Chilean Higher Education From State to Market
Andrés Bernasconi

12. Lessons Learned and Future Directions
Brian Rowan

13. Gauging the Prospects for Change
Heinz-Dieter Meyer

List of Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Éducation
• Education
• Sociology

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791481080
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The New Institutionalism in Education

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T H E N E W I N S T I T U T I O N A L I S M I N E D U C AT I O N

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Edited by HEINZ-DIETER MEYER BRIAN ROWAN

S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W Y O R K P R E S S

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The new institutionalism in education / edited by Heinz-Dieter Meyer, Brian Rowan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6905-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7914-6905-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. School management and organization—Philosophy. 2. Educational sociology. 3. Institutions (Philosophy) I. Meyer, Heinz-Dieter. II. Rowan, Brian.

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Contents

1. Institutional Analysis and the Study of Education Heinz-Dieter Meyer and Brian Rowan

2. The New Institutionalism and the Study of Educational Organizations: Changing Ideas for Changing Times Brian Rowan

3. Varieties of Institutional Theory: Traditions and Prospects for Educational Research Charles E. Bidwell

4. The Rise and Decline of the Common School as an Institution: Taking “Myth and Ceremony” Seriously Heinz-Dieter Meyer

5. The School Improvement Industry in the United States: Why Educational Change Is Both Pervasive and Ineffectual Brian Rowan

6. The Institutional Environment and Instructional Practice: Changing Patterns of Guidance and Control in Public Education James Spillane and Patricia Burch

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7. The New Institutionalism Goes to the Market: The Challenge of Rapid Growth in Private K–12 Education Scott Davies, Linda Quirke, and Janice Aurini

8. Growing Commonalities and Persistent Differences in Higher Education: Universities between Global Models and National Legacies Francisco O. Ramirez

9. How Private Higher Education’s Growth Challenges the New Institutionalism Daniel C. Levy

10. Institutional Change in Education: Evidence from Cross-National Comparisons David P. Baker

11. Breaking the Institutional Mold: Faculty in the Transformation of Chilean Higher Education From State to Market Andrés Bernasconi

12. Lessons Learned and Future Directions Brian Rowan

13. Gauging the Prospects for Change Heinz-Dieter Meyer

List of Contributors

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Institutional Change as Punctuated Equilibrium Organizational Characteristics by Type of Private Education Institutionalized Differences between Canada and the United States Growth of Tertiary Enrollment as a Proportion of the Twenty to Twenty-four Age Group

Figure 8.2: Humanities and Social Sciences as a Proportion of Total Tertiary Enrollment Figure 10.1: Shadow Education by Nation, Eighth-Grade Mathematics Figure 10.2: Growth in Secondary Enrollment Ratios: 1970–1995 Figure 10.3: Growth in Public Expenditure on Education: 1980–1993 Figure 10.4: Education and Income Inequality Table 11.1: Private Expenditures as Percent of Total Higher Education Spending and Tuition Revenues as a Proportion of Current Expenditures in Public Universities

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Acknowledgments

This volume began with a generous grant by the RGK Foundation in support of a scholarly conference to explore the implications of the “new institution- alism” for education research and analysis. The conference was attended by sociologists and scholars in the fields of education, education policy, and orga- nization studies and generated the drafts for the majority of the chapters in this book. It is a reasonable guess that without such small, more sharply focused conferences many themes and topics in the social sciences would remain unexplored. Thus our sincere thanks to the people at RGK who gen- erously and unbureaucratically supported this undertaking. Thanks, too, to the University at Albany, for the hospitality extended to the conference partici- pants and the support to the organizers. Finally, warm thanks to Lisa Ches- nel at State University of New York Press who remained a cheerful supporter of this book from proposal to final version.

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