Reconsidering Replication: New Perspectives on Large-Scale School Improvement
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- Title
- Reconsidering Replication: New Perspectives on Large-Scale School Improvement
- Abstract/Description
- The purpose of this analysis is to reconsider organizational replication as a strategy for large-scale school improvement: a strategy that features a "hub" organization collaborating with "outlet" schools to enact school-wide designs for improvement. To do so, we synthesize a leading line of research on commercial replication to construct a "knowledge-based logic" focused on the production, use, improvement, and retention of effective practices in large numbers of schools. Drawing on findings from a longitudinal case study, we then use the knowledge-based logic to structure an interpretation of Success for All, a leading comprehensive school reform program. In contrast to common assumptions of organizational replication as a strategy that yields rapid results at the expense of local and professional control, we argue that organizational replication can be understood as a long-term enterprise in which program providers and schools collaborate to produce, use, improve, and retain practical knowledge. Capitalizing on this potential, however, is contingent on both proponents and critics re-examining common assumptions about organizational replication and recognizing value in replication enterprises that they would otherwise miss.
- Date
- In publication
- Journal of Educational Change
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 155-190
- Resource type
- Research/Scholarly Media
- Resource status/form
- en Published Text
- Keywords
- best practice
- educational reform
- innovation
- knowledge production
- organizational learning
- replication
- scale
- school turnaround
- sustainability
- IRE Approach/Concept
- Organizational Replication
- Large-Scale Improvement
- Education Reform
- Featured case/project
- Success for All Foundation (SFAF)
- i3 Learning Community (i3LC)
- Language
- en
- Open access/full-text available
- en No
- Peer reviewed
- en Yes
- ISSN
- 1389-2843
- Grant funding
- Atlantic Philanthropies, USA
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- U.S. Department of Education
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Grant number
- U.S. Department of Education (#R308A6003)
- National Science Foundation (#9979863).
- Citation
- Peurach, D. J., & Glazer, J. L. (2012). Reconsidering Replication: New Perspectives on Large-Scale School Improvement. Journal of Educational Change, 13(2), 155–190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-011-9177-7
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