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Title

The new institutionalism in education / edited by Heinz-Dieter Meyer, Brian Rowan.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Meyer, Heinz-Dieter.
• Rowan, Brian.

Description

ix, 234 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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."--Back cover.

Subject

• New institutionalism (Social sciences)
• School management and organization > Philosophy
• Educational sociology
• Institutions (Philosophy)
• Schulleitung
• Schulorganisation
• Sozialer Wandel
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Onderwijs
• Institutionalisme
• Administration scolaire > Philosophie
• Sociologie de l'éducation
• Institution (philosophie)
• Utbildningssociologi
• Skolledning

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Institutional analysis and the study of education / Heinz-Dieter Meyer and Brian Rowan -- The new institutionalism and the study of educational organizations: changing ideas for changing times / Brian Rowan -- Varieties of institutional research: traditions and prospects for educational research / Charles E. Bidwell -- The rise and decline of the common school as an institution: taking "myth and ceremony" seriously / Heinz-Dieter Meyer -- The school improvement industry in the United States: why educational change is both pervasive and ineffectual / Brian Rowan -- The institutional environment and instructional practice: changing patterns of guidance and control in public education / James Spillane and Patricia Burch -- The new institutionalism goes to the market: the challenge of rapid growth in private K-12 education / Scott Davies, Linda Quirke, and Janice Aurini -- Growing commonalities and persistent differences in higher education: universities between global models and national legacies / Francisco O. Ramirez -- How private higher education's growth challenges the new institutionalism / Daniel C. Levy -- Institutional change in education: evidence from cross-national comparisons / David P. Barker -- Breaking the institutional mold: faculty in the transformation of Chilean higher education from state to market / Andrés Bernasconi -- Lessons learned and future directions / Brian Rowan -- Gauging the prospects for change / Heinz-Dieter Meyer.

ISBN

• 0791469050
• 9780791469057
• 0791469069
• 9780791469064

LCCN

• 2005033518
• 9780791469057

OCLC

• ocm62326763
• 62326763
• SCSB-8903571

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library