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âScaling upâ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges
Educational policy-makers around the world are strongly committed to the notion of âscaling upâ. This can mean anything from encouraging more teachers to take up a pedagogical innovation, all the way through to system-wide efforts to implement âwhat worksâ across all schools. In this paper, I use Bourdieuâs notions of misrecognition to consider the current orthodoxies of scaling up. I argue that the focus on âprocessâ and âimplementation problemsâ: (1) both obscures and legitimates the ways in which the field logics of practice actually work and, (2) produces/reproduces the inequitable distribution of educational benefits (capitals and life opportunities). I suggest that the notion of misrecognition might provide a useful lens through which to examine reform initiatives and explanations of their success/failure
Strategy for R. & D.: Studies in the Microeconomics of Development. Econometrics and Operations Research, Volume VIII. A Rand Corporation Research Study.
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