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- Title
Reconsidering replication: New perspectives on large-scale school improvement.
- Authors
Peurach, Donald; Glazer, Joshua
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC improvement; BEST practices; SUCCESS for All (Program); EDUCATIONAL change; EDUCATION associations
- Publication
Journal of Educational Change, 2012, Vol 13, Issue 2, p155
- ISSN
1389-2843
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10833-011-9177-7