The Changing Nature of Tertiary Education: Neo-Institutional Perspectives on Cross-National Trends in Disciplinary Enrollment, 1965–1995

Abstract

Education has become an important and frequently studied field for neo-institutional scholars. Undoubtedly, some of the oldest and now canonized neo-institutional works were written about education: clearly John Meyer's (1977) work on education as an institution, but also the work of Robert K. Merton (1938/1970) on early modern science. Our work here on global tertiary education intends to add to this now rich body of institutionalist literature on education on both empirical and theoretical grounds by studying cross-national trends in tertiary education.

Citation

Drori, G.S. and Moon, H. (2006), "The Changing Nature of Tertiary Education: Neo-Institutional Perspectives on Cross-National Trends in Disciplinary Enrollment, 1965–1995", Baker, D.P. and Wiseman, A.W. (Ed.) The Impact of Comparative Education Research on Institutional Theory (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 7), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 157-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3679(06)07008-3