ZHCES Seminar Series
TOPIC:
Local Schooling and Organizational Change: New Insights from the Perspective of Institutional Theory
SPEAKER:
Professor Patricia Burch
Professor of Education and Policy,
University of Southern California
About the Speaker: Patricia Burch (PhD, Stanford University) is Professor of Education and Policy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles California. She is Co-Director of the Center on Policy Education Equity and Governance, Burch’s research focuses on privatization, policy, organizational and institutional theory, qualitative and mixed methods research, and evidence based policy and practice. Burch's publications include Mixed Methods Research for Policy and Program Evaluation (SAGE, 2016). Hidden Markets: The New Education Privatization, (Routledge, 2009), Equal Scrutiny: Privatization and Accountability in Digital Education (Harvard Education Press, 2015). Burch’s work has appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Teachers College Record, Educational Researcher, and other notable journals. She is international editor of the Journal of Education Policy. Burch regularly collaborates with government agencies and non-governmental organizations on program evaluation and in improving program design and policy effectiveness, with specific attention to equity and quality.
DATE: 13th March, 2020 (Friday)
TIME: 3:00 pm
Room No. 207, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES II
(All Welcome)
Dr. Pradeep Kumar Choudhury
(Coordinator, ZHCES Seminar Series)
Abstract: The movement from more to less centralization in examining schools is a movement newly shared by a number of those persons studying educational organizations from an institutional perspective. More recently, neo-institutional research has taken on the question of 'why, even with substantial similarity and stasis in structures does some variation and change exist (Zucker, 1988) . One answer to this question come from examining how institutional processes unfold at the micro-level given actors' work practices and how agency paradoxically can exist even when actors are embedded in institutional contexts (Battilana & D'Aunno, 2009; DiMaggio, 1988; Powell & Colyvas, 2008). This new line of thinking in neo-institutional research and its relevance in shifting policy contexts is the central focus of this seminar.
