“The Business of Teaching and Learning”: Institutionalizing Equity in Educational Organizations Through Continuous Improvement
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“The Business of Teaching and Learning”: Institutionalizing Equity in Educational Organizations Through Continuous Improvement
Abstract/Description
The continuous improvement (CI) approach to systems change has rapidly spread across education policy circles in recent years and has been hailed as a promising means to achieve educational equity and social justice. CI’s highly routinized, scientific process for improving efficiency and productivity is a somewhat unexpected means to pursue equity. To understand this puzzle, I examine the use of CI to promote equity through two qualitative, multilevel case studies. I draw on institutional theory to understand how CI has integrated logics of racial equity and performance, and how local actors have improvised novel approaches. This analysis illuminates the complex institutional dynamics at play with CI implementation and identifies the challenges and promise of using CI to promote educational equity.
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Date
In publication
Volume
59
Issue
3
Pages
461–499
Publisher
Sage
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Empirical
IRE Approach/Concept
Featured case/project
Primary national context
Open access/full-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
ISSN-0002-8312
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