A Synthesis: Expanding the Reach of Education Research and Reforms

Abstract

Stemming from the wide-ranging discussions in this book of issues, strategies, approaches, and trajectories for achieving scalability and sustainability, this closing chapter presents a synthesis of various crosscutting themes that have emerged or serve as rise-above for a higher and deeper level of understanding of the happenings and trends in educational reforms. We look into the themes related to framing the challenges of scaling, models of scaling from other disciplines, alternative approaches of scaling in different settings and the challenges that ensued, learnability of scaling and diffusion concepts, macro vs micro perspectives, and top-down vs bottom-up approaches. We envisage such a synopsis will lead to a systemic picture that is informative in creating a new scholarship of understanding the complexity of educational scaling matters.