Shifting the Discourse on Neo-Institutional Theory in Comparative and International Education
Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78190-694-1, eISBN: 978-1-78190-695-8
Publication date: 9 August 2014
Abstract
Neo-institutional theory has provided a productive perspective on comparative and international education phenomena since the 1970s. Yet, recent critical discourse about educational phenomena investigated through a neo-institutional lens has been somewhat one-sided. The authors reexamine neo-institutional theory and its application to comparative and international education by demonstrating the ways that the theory frames both macro- and micro-level educational phenomena. The ability to shift the discourse about neo-institutional theory from a largely macro-level framework to one capable of investigating educational changes occurring at the micro level is vital to understanding the comprehensiveness of national educational systems and the ways that both world culture and individual agency contribute to these systems. Specifically, using the empirical application of neo-institutional theory to the intersection of information and communication technology (ICT) and internationally comparative educational data, the macro and micro levels of educational phenomena can be productively examined. In so doing, this chapter shifts the discourse on how and why neo-institutional theory reflects cross-national educational trends and micro-contextual effects on education worldwide.
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Citation
Wiseman, A.W. and Chase-Mayoral, A. (2014), "Shifting the Discourse on Neo-Institutional Theory in Comparative and International Education", Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2013 (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 20), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 99-126. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3679(2013)0000020014
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