The article aims to contribute to the analysis of changes in schools and the assessment of what we mean by educational innovation from three processes that significantly affect the evolution of our schools and of education in general. The text first describes reinstitutionalization processes, how the school itself is organized to improve its ability to innovate pedagogically. Second, it addresses regulatory processes, which deal with the relationship between the school and its territory, and with the possible ranges of action in their local social and political context. Third, it analyzes some of the processes of recontextualisation through which the different social agents (from the mass media to the government) change and define their discourses about what to do at school.
Keywords
School culture, school, innovation, agents and recontextualizing fields and agents, re-institutionalization processes, regulatory mechanisms, schooling
