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ERIC Number: EJ1156114
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 8
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-1383
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From Dissemination to Propagation: A New Paradigm for Education Developers
Froyd, Jeffrey E.; Henderson, Charles; Cole, Renée S.; Friedrichsen, Debra; Khatri, Raina; Stanford, Courtney
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, v49 n4 p35-42 2017
Scholarly studies and national reports document failure of current efforts to achieve broad, sustained adoption of research-based instructional practices, despite compelling bodies of evidence supporting efficacy of many of these practices. The authors of this paper argue that many change agents who are working to promote systemic adoption of these teaching practices use approaches that are characterized by what the authors call the "dissemination paradigm." A dissemination paradigm characterizes patterns of these current, failing efforts. Change agents, working within the dissemination paradigm, try to convince adopters that their innovations can help their students. Efforts within the dissemination paradigm have not led, and are unlikely to lead, to systemic adoption. The authors offer the "propagation paradigm" as an alternative with the potential to produce improved results. Change agents, working within the propagation paradigm, engage with adopters early and often to understand their instructional systems and interactively develop a strong product adaptable to specific contexts.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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