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Title: Insights into scaling up a nation-wide learning and teaching initiative on various levels
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Scaling up educational innovations is a complex endeavour. It often fails or is only successful to a limited extent. More knowledge is therefore needed about the factors that lead to successful scaling up and about the challenges in doing so. The factors fostering the scaling up of educational innovations depend on the level where innovations are expected – at the teachers’, schools’, regional or at the national level. There is a lack of knowledge about these factors and their interconnectedness, in particular regarding large initiatives aiming at innovations at some or even at all of these levels. This paper reports a meta-study building on several existing empirical studies, theoretical considerations, and complementing new studies related to the multi-layered nation-wide initiative IMST (Innovations Make Schools Top) in Austria. The meta-study synthesises findings and considerations regarding IMST and aims to analyse and identify relevant fostering factors and challenges. The diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory and the self-determination theory (SDT) are used as lenses on the complex topic of scaling up of educational innovations. The meta-study highlights the particular relevance of the factors need for competence (referring to SDT) as well as relative advantage and trialability (both referring to DOI) in scaling up the initiative. As major challenges we highlight the interconnection between individual and organisational learning, the balance between a bottom-up and top-down strategy, and the need to further build up resources in subject didactics in Austria. Finally, we sketch ideas how to further develop IMST.

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Publication type: Article in journal (Authorship)
Publication date: 22.06.2018 (Online)
Published by: Educational Studies in Mathematics
Educational Studies in Mathematics
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Title of the series: -
Volume number: 102
Issue: 3
First publication: Yes
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Page: pp. 395 - 415

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Publication date: 22.06.2018
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eISSN: 1573-0816
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10649-018-9826-3
Homepage: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-018-9826-3#aboutcontent
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  • Available online (open access)

Assignment

Organisation Address
Fakultät für Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften
 
Institut für Unterrichts- und Schulentwicklung
Sterneckstraße 15
9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
Austria
   office-ius@aau.at
http://ius.aau.at
To organisation
Sterneckstraße 15
AT - 9020  Klagenfurt am Wörthersee

Categorisation

Subject areas
  • 503006 - Educational research
Research Cluster
  • Educational research
Citation index
  • Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
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Peer reviewed
  • Yes
Publication focus
  • Science to Science (Quality indicator: I)
Classification raster of the assigned organisational units:
working groups
  • IMST

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Organisation Address
BG/BRG Lerchenfeld
Lerchenfeldstraße 22
9020 Klagenfurt
Austria
Lerchenfeldstraße 22
AT - 9020  Klagenfurt

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