How Status Competition Complicates Institutional Explanations Of Higher Educational Expansion: A Caribbean Case Study

Abstract

This chapter is part of a larger project that examines recent educational expansion efforts in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, a nation that provides a valuable case study of challenges shaping higher educational expansion efforts in developing countries. The initial goal of the project was to identify supply and demand issues in postsecondary training. Though we did not collect data with the intent to examine neo-institutional or status competition dynamics, this theme emerged inductively from a series of interviews conducted with individuals and focus groups, making it an ideal case study for this volume.

Citation

Werum, R.E. and Rauscher, L. (2006), "How Status Competition Complicates Institutional Explanations Of Higher Educational Expansion: A Caribbean Case Study", 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. 239-280. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3679(06)07011-3