Institutional dynamics in scenariosofchange: questioning and imprints of foundational myths

Abstract

Innovations in educational institutions are of great complexity, considering they impact their very constituent elements. This work analyzes institutional dynamics in situations of curricular innovation, embodied in intersubjectivities of different professor groups, through the grading of final exams of the students. In this sense, different types of statistical analyses of student grades represent an axis for the analysis that accounts for the questioning of changeand of imprints of foundational myths. The value of a correlation of meanings reflected in different types of analyses of the grades given by professors to students can indicate what each individual considers as valid and false and may represent an interesting thread to expand the way of looking at unconscious social mandates. In order to understand the complexity of institutions it is important to reveal their history and reflect on the way in which practices and social interweavings of times past have turned into enabling and restricting structures of the present.