Professor TOBY GREANY Toby.Greany@nottingham.ac.uk
Chair in Education
Approaches to scaling innovations across schools: an analysis of key theories and models
Greany, Toby
Authors
Contributors
Michael A. Peters
Editor
Richard Heraud
Editor
Abstract
The question of how to scale up successful innovations remains a key challenge for policy and practice in education (Hall, 2013). This article outlines three established ‘schools of thought’ around how to scale up successful innovations. The first approach – eco-systems - is informed by complexity theory and tends to focus on generating and scaling innovations through diverse lateral networks which allow multiple stakeholders to collaborate (OECD, 2015). The second approach – ‘what works?’ – is interested in identifying effective practices through rigorous, scientific research and in replicating these proven practices across multiple schools with high degrees of fidelity. The third approach – Improvement Science - emphasises the importance of practitioner judgement and learning for interpreting and applying evidence across different contexts, but also recognises the importance of school-level cultures and wider factors, and so seeks to generate systematic forms of innovation, evaluation and improvement at scale (Bryk, 2015; Resnick, 2010). This article concludes by discussing the respective contributions of these models and the implications for policy, practice and research.
Citation
Greany, T. (2019). Approaches to scaling innovations across schools: an analysis of key theories and models. In R. Heraud, & M. A. Peters (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Educational Innovation. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2262-4_68-1
Acceptance Date | Apr 6, 2019 |
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Online Publication Date | Sep 12, 2019 |
Publication Date | 2019 |
Deposit Date | Apr 8, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 13, 2021 |
Publisher | Springer |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Book Title | Encyclopaedia of Educational Innovation |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2262-4_68-1 |
Keywords | educational innovation; scaling up; educational improvement; educational change; schools |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1760533 |
Publisher URL | https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-13-2262-4_68-1 |
Related Public URLs | https://meteor.springer.com/project/dashboard.jsf?id=813&tab=About&mode=ReadPage&entity=6074 |
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