The New Institutionalism in Education

by Meyer, Heinz-Dieter; Rowan, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780791469057
• ISBN10: 0791469050
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780791481080
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
1. Institutional Analysis and the Study of Education	1	(14)
Heinz-Dieter Meyer and Brian Rowan
2. The New Institutionalism and the Study of Educational Organizations: Changing Ideas for Changing Times	15	(18)
Brian Rowan
3. Varieties of Institutional Theory: Traditions and Prospects for Educational Research	33	(18)
Charles E. Bidwell
4. The Rise and Decline of the Common School as an Institution: Taking "Myth and Ceremony" Seriously	51	(16)
Heinz-Dieter Meyer
5. The School Improvement Industry in the United States: Why Educational Change Is Both Pervasive and Ineffectual	67	(20)
Brian Rowan
6. The Institutional Environment and Instructional Practice: Changing Patterns of Guidance and Control in Public Education	87	(16)
James Spillane and Patricia Burch
7. The New Institutionalism Goes to the Market: The Challenge of Rapid Growth in Private K-12 Education	103	(20)
Scott Davies, Linda Quirke, and Janice Aurini
8. Growing Commonalities and Persistent Differences in Higher Education: Universities between Global Models and National Legacies	123	(20)
Francisco O. Ramirez
9. How Private Higher Education's Growth Challenges the New Institutionalism	143	(20)
Daniel C. Levy
10. Institutional Change in Education: Evidence from Cross-National Comparisons	163	(24)
David P. Baker
11. Breaking the Institutional Mold: Faculty in the Transformation of Chilean Higher Education From State to Market	187	(16)
Andrés Bernasconi
12. Lessons Learned and Future Directions	203	(14)
Brian Rowan
13. Gauging the Prospects for Change	217	(8)
Heinz-Dieter Meyer
List of Contributors	225	(4)
Index	229