The New Institutionalism in EducationHeinz-Dieter Meyer, Brian Rowan 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. |
Contents
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Changing Ideas for Changing Times | 15 |
Traditions and Prospects for Educational Research | 33 |
Taking Myth andCeremony Seriously | 51 |
Why Educational Change Is Both Pervasive and Ineffectual | 67 |
Changing Patterns of Guidance and Control in Public Education | 87 |
The Challenge of Rapid Growth in Private K12 Education | 103 |
Universities between Global Models and National Legacies | 123 |
9 How Private Higher Educations Growth Challenges the New Institutionalism | 143 |
Evidence from CrossNational Comparisons | 163 |
Faculty in the Transformation of Chilean Higher Education from State to Market | 187 |
12 Lessons Learned and Future Directions | 203 |
13 Gauging the Prospects for Change | 217 |
Contributors | 225 |
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Page 4 - Education has varied infinitely in time and place. In the cities of Greece and Rome, education trained the individual to subordinate himself blindly to the collectivity, to become the creature of society. Today, it tries to make of the individual an autonomous personality. In Athens, they sought to form cultivated souls, informed, subtle, full of measure and harmony, capable of enjoying beauty and the joys of pure speculation; in Rome, they wanted above all for children to become men of action, devoted...
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