PhD studnet Emerson LaCroix recently had an article named Organizational Complexities of Experiential Education: Institutionalization and Logic Work in Higher Education published in the Journal of Experiential Education.
Experiential education has been institutionalized in the Ontario post-secondary sector. While discussions on experiential education tend to focus on pedagogical considerations, we know very little about the organizational processes that play out within universities. My research highlights that there are organizational complexities to this institutional process. As universities continue to prepare students for work and life after graduation, they address pressures from outside (their institutional environment) and within (their organizational environment). Institutionalizing experiential education has implications for multiple logics at play within universities and thus requires more “logic work” of those working within. This exploratory study lays the groundwork for further theorizing experiential education from an organizational perspective, namely, studying experiential education across disciplines, theorizing at the field level, and ‘third space’ actors.
A link to the article is: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10538259211028987