Democratizing Educational Innovation and Improvement: The Policy Contexts of Improvement Research in Education

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Title: Democratizing Educational Innovation and Improvement: The Policy Contexts of Improvement Research in Education
Abstract/Description: The aim of this essay is to advance understandings of current efforts to democratize disciplined approaches to educational innovation and improvement in the US and other countries, with a specific focus on the macro-level policy contexts of improvement research in education. In the US, earlier analyses examined these policy contexts from a contemporary perspective, with an emergent improvement movement in tension with an institutionalized evidence movement. By contrast, this essay provides an historical perspective through a “geological analysis” of US education reform. This analysis has the improvement movement atop macro-level policy contexts that are layers-deep, and as potentially integral to a public education enterprise that has been evolving for centuries: at the policy level, from resource-forward to practice-forward innovation and improvement; at the local level, from school systems to education systems to learning systems. This analytic approach and framework suggest the need for a new discourse about efforts to democratize disciplined approaches to educational innovation and improvement in the US, as well as possibilities for comparative and international research examining parallel developments in other countries. This essay was prepared as a contribution to The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education.
Author/creator: Peurach, Donald J.; Foster, Anna T.; Lyle, Angela; Seeber, Emily R.
Date: August 2021
In publication: CPRE Working Papers
Publisher: Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE)
Resource type: Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Theoretical; en Historical; en Synthesis/Overview
Keywords: innovation; improvement; policy; research; knowledge production; knowledge use; systems; mass schooling; markets; infrastructure; evidence; practice; resource-forward; practice-forward
IRE Approach/Concept: Infrastructure; Policy; Education Reform; Instructional Improvement; Democracy; Epistemic Community/Socialized Knowledge Community (SKC); Use of Research Evidence (URE); Knowledge Use; Research Development Dissemination Utilization (RDDU) Logic; Equity
Primary national context: United States
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
URL: Working Paper Webpage; Open Access Working Paper PDF
Grant funding: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Alternate version: Democratizing Educational Innovation and Improvement: The Policy Contexts of Improvement Research in Education
Other related resources/entities: The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement; The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education; Education Resources Information Center (ERIC); Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
Citation: Peurach, D. J., Foster, A. T., Lyle, A., & Seeber, E. (2021). Democratizing Educational Innovation and Improvement: The Policy Contexts of Improvement Research in Education. CPRE Working Papers. https://repository.upenn.edu/cpre_workingpapers/27

Item sets: Open Access Resource (IRE)

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