Towards Critical Discussions of Scaling Up Educational Innovations

Abstract

In recent years, because of increasing expectations for the public investment in education research to benefit education policy and practice, there have been fresh impetuses for researchers to better understand issues key to the sustaining and scaling of educational innovations. Various research and implementation trajectories have resulted in strategies that can lead to successful implementation and scaling up of promising research or innovation outcomes and generated models or frameworks of scaling. It is timely now to look at this diversity of approaches and distil from them the commonalities and differences. This chapter describes our current understanding and perspectives of scaling up, which motivates this book as it presents the latest insights, contemporary models, case studies and meta-studies that can advance our understanding of the scaling up agenda.