Budd, Richard (2018) Eliciting the institutional myth: exploring the ethos of ‘the university’ in Germany and England. European Journal of Higher Education, 8 (2). pp. 135-151. ISSN 2156-8235
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Abstract
This paper is situated in relation to a critical mass of largely censorious commentary around global policy trends purportedly undermining, or even realigning, universities’ ‘traditional’ ethos, but where the student perspective on this appears to have been largely ignored. Drawing on interviews with German and English undergraduates, it applies the neo-institutional theory of organizational fields supported by regulative, cognitive, and normative pillars (Scott 1995. Institutions and Organi zations. Thousand Oaks: Sage). The latter pillar, representing a sector’s values, methods, and goals, is of particular interest here, and it will be argued that this and an ethos may correspond. The findings show that a sense of the participants’ understanding of a university ethos/normative pillar could be discerned, with significant convergence between the two groups. However at the same time there was also divergence both within and between them, and this raises a number of novel empirical and theoretical questions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in [European Journal of Higher Education] on [6th September 2017], available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21568235.2017.1358100]. |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education |
| Depositing User: | Richard Budd |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Apr 2018 08:22 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Nov 2024 10:22 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/2435 |
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