Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.