‘Adapting an Innovation’ when scaling global development projects

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Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, The Open University

The event will explore what it means to 'adapt an innovation' when scaling global development projects.

The Centre for the Study of Global Development is delighted to commence our external seminar series for 2023. Professor Freda Wolfenden will be speaking at this seminar. She is a Professor of Education and International Development at The Open University in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies.This will be a hybrid event. If you would be joining us in person, please send an email to csgd@open.ac.ukV﻿enueJ﻿ennie Lee Building L1 Blue AshT﻿he Open University, Milton KeynesA﻿BSTRACTGlobal discourse increasingly focuses on scaling proven innovations and their impacts to address problems of educational access and participation. Adaptation is recognised as integral to successful scaling (Cooley, Seghers, &amp; Perlman Robinson, 2021) but there is little published research on the nature of the adaptation process in different contexts and how it is informed by concerns of equity, quality and cost. The adaptation process is often depicted as one in which international guidance supports ‘local’ actors to combine global research with local conditions. In recent work we have problematised this conception. We see adaptation as a dynamic two-way open process, which is participatory, relational and positions participants at all levels of the system as knowledgeable experts: a culturally embedded social practice (Rogoff, 2008). A key challenge is to create conditions in which there are opportunities for all participants to be agentive to experiment with different adaptations within regimes of accountability. This seminar will draw on emerging findings from education projects in different contexts which aim for system change to illustrate how adaptation has occurred in practice and share a tentative model for adaptation to prompt discussion of adaptation in different sectors such as health, nutrition and youth employment, and contexts.

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