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Critiques on Isomorphism: The Institutionalized Context Constituted by Neo-liberalism and the Practice of Teacher Professional Autonomy Dr

Tien-Hui Chiang   

  1. School of Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
  • Online:2019-07-25 Published:2019-07-25

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Abstract: Drawing upon the theory of isomorphism, this article sets out to illustrate the practice of teacher professional autonomy within the institutionalized context that is molded by social values. When higher education institutes are forced to adopt the efficiency-led approach created by neo-liberalism, they tend to display homogeneous features associated with organizational forms and administrative modes. While this convergent trend corresponds to the characters of isomorphism, individual institutes may engage in the strategy of reference, permitting them to maximize their own advantages. As divergence and convergence are in parallel in the institutionalized milieu, an action scope with a loosely defined boundary develops, so the actors, including teachers, enjoy a certain degree of relative autonomy. Nevertheless, the practice of this autonomy is stipulated by the mechanism of social selection. Such a correlation suggests that this mechanism functions as a macro form, indicating the specific social positions of individual actions in the social structure, which are the key indicator of measuring social returns, including reward and sanction. The combination of knowledgeability, creative action and ability is able to regulate such positions.

Key words: isomorphism, reference, institutionalized context, the mechanism of social selection, the practice of teacher professional autonomy

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