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Peer reviewedOgawa, Rodney T. – American Educational Research Journal, 1994
Drawing on concepts from an institutional theory of organizations, this study describes policy, teacher union, and academic actors who shaped and promoted school-based management in the national arena, their interests, and the network that linked them. School-based management was at least partially the product of institutional environment. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational History, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedOgawa, Rodney T.; Sandholtz, Judith Haymore; Martinez-Flores, Marilyn; Scribner, Samantha Paredes – American Educational Research Journal, 2003
Examined one school district's efforts to develop and implement a standards-based curriculum using rational and institutional perspectives. Findings show that the district took an expressly rationalistic approach in using standards, but lacking a clear instructional philosophy, the district also took an institutional approach. (SLD)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
