DiMaggioPowell-IronCageRevisited-ASR
Institutional isomorphism (DiMaggio & Powell)
- Self-shaping the institution as a living organism
- Made up of people who bring it to life
- Philosophy, perspectives, practices are expressed inside of it
- Can sustain it’s own existence
- Not all things are in a policy – explicit
- How much change can happen? Resource variables
- Recreating the conditions a mind sets that sustain it
- Inquiry based learning changes the power balance, more towards teachers/students
- Less curriculum- grade driven
- Conveyed through normative practice, coercive practice, and mimetic
- http://faculty.babson.edu/krollag/org_site/org_theory/Scott_articles/dimag_powel.html
Conservative Dynamisms (Dynamic Conservatism)
- Larry Cuban “oversold & underused”
- Transmitting knowledge, usual methods on new technology (lecture 2 ppt 2 online notes)
- Important topics rendered dull
- Teacher directed learning and in charge
- Cynical passive – aggressive response to ICT
- Ignores responsibility to students
- http://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/dynamic-conservatism-and-stability-in-teaching/
- http://larrycuban.wordpress.com/
Socio Cultural Homeostasis (Antonio Domasio)
- Human cognition
- Interconnectedness as people
- Feel first, then think, then rationalize behaviour
- The ways we use words., invoke responses in others
- Using words to make connections between people
- Things that stay the same
- How things stay the same
- Cultural and individual change
- How to maintain that change
- Pressure from our Socio Economic Cultural status to NOT change
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_25uUpippE
- http://www.ted.com/talks/antonio_damasio_the_quest_to_understand_consciousness.html
- http://discovermagazine.com/2010/dec/17-art-science-peer-into-the-mind#.Udxfgj6gl8s
- http://www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=27
- http://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1008328&CFID=8833770&CFTOKEN=98808467
These are a good collection of notes and links to start a conversation. How do these concepts influence your thinking about your role as an educator? How do they change or influence your view of the educational institution that you are working in now? Are you able to make connections between these concepts of institutional isomorphism, dynamic conservatism and sociocultural homeostasis and your understanding of the dynamic contextual conditions of your profession as an educator? Can you remember any situations or dilemmas you are currently facing in practice that might be helped by understanding them through these conceptual lens?
This blog post was designed to serve as a summation of your learning journey at the close of week 2. How would you relate these notes to your evolving understanding of education, digital technologies, inquiry, and life in educational institutions?