The Role of Innovation in Scaling Up Educational Innovations
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The Role of Innovation in Scaling Up Educational Innovations
Abstract/Description
Getting innovations to scale is an increasingly important mandate for educational research, yet also a vexing challenge for researchers who have attempted to take this on. A common perspective on scaling considers it fundamentally as an issue of how to take interventions that have been shown to work in a small number of settings and transfer them to a larger number of settings. In this chapter, we develop an argument that the principal aim of scaling up is not merely to expand the use of a particular educational innovation, but to improve education. When scaling up is viewed as a matter of improving education, the focus shifts from transfer of research to practice, where the researcher is primarily concerned with specifying the right conditions for the best fit, toward transformation of practice supported by research, where researchers become intermediaries who work with practitioners to improve the education system so that the essential principles of an innovation can be sustained. This shift in how we view scale-up has significant implications for research on the process of scaling up; for the relationship between research, policy, and practice; and for the sustainable and long-term improvement of education.
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Date
In publication
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Series
Pages
13-30
Publisher
Springer
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Empirical
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Open access/full-text available
No
Peer reviewed
No
ISBN
978-981-287-537-2
Citation
Sabelli, N. H., & Harris, C. J. (2015). The Role of Innovation in Scaling Up Educational Innovations. In C.-K. Looi & L. W. Teh (Eds.), Scaling Educational Innovations (pp. 13–30). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-537-2_2
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