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TRAVELING SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS
Abstract
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE FIELD EXTENSION SERVICE CONCEPT AS A METHOD FOR DISSEMINATING INFORMATION CONCERNING EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS WAS TESTED. A REGIONAL TRAVELING SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE WAS DESIGNED TO ASSESS THE EFFECTS OF FIELD SITE VISITS AND DEMONSTRATIONS OF INNOVATIVE PRACTICES IN OPERATIONAL SCHOOL SITUATIONS UPON PARTICIPATING EDUCATORS. PROCEDURES FOR ITS ACCOMPLISHMENT INCLUDED (1) SELECTION AND ORGANIZATION OF TOUR LEADERS, (2) CHOICE OF SCHOOL SITES TO BE VISITED, (3) SELECTION OF PARTICIPATING EDUCATORS, (4) CONDUCT OF THE SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE, AND (5) FOLLOWUP 1 YEAR LATER IN ORDER TO ASSESS CHANGES IN INNOVATIONAL BEHAVIOR AT THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS PREVIOUSLY VISITED. THE FOLLOWING CONCLUSIONS WERE DRAWN--(1) THE TRAVELING SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE (A FIELD SERVICE CONCEPT) IS A HIGHLY EFFECTIVE DISSEMINATION METHOD FOR STIMULATING AND FACILITATING EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION, (2) THERE ARE MEASURABLE ATTRIBUTES OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS, (3) THE ATTITUDE OF THE LOCAL SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS TOWARD INNOVATION IS AN IMPORTANT VARIABLE IN THE INTRODUCTION OF INNOVATIONS IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS. RECOMMENDATIONS EVOLVING FROM THE PROJECT WERE--(1) THIS TECHNIQUE SHOULD BE EXPANDED AND ACTIVELY SUPPORTED BY ADEQUATE FINANCIAL RESOURCES AS AN EFFECTIVE DISSEMINATION ACTIVITY, (2) THIS TECHNIQUE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED FOR INCORPORATION IN THE DISSEMINATION PROGRAMS OF THE REGIONAL LABORATORIES, (3) SPECIFIC GUIDELINES FOR PLANNING AND ORGANIZING SHOULD BE INCORPORATED, AND (4) SUBSTANTIAL EXPANSION OF PRESENT LIMITED RESEARCH EFFORTS SHOULD BE DEVOTED TO PLANNED CHANGE IN EDUCATION. (HB)
... In several programs an administrator and several teachers were trained as a group to initiate changes in their schools (Center for New Schools, 1971). Fairweather (1971), Glaser and Wrenn (1966), Richland (1965), and Roberts and Larsen (1971) offered evidence that the primary source of the innovative idea is personal contact. Contact with others, whether in person or by mail, usually is more successful than formal communication channels (books, journals, speeches, etc.). ...
How does one get organizations, institutions, and individual decision makers to develop non-defensive, open-minded willingness to review their standard practices and try out relevant, credible, promising innovations? (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
This article reports on a study of technological innovations in state and local government agencies. The study was based on an aggregate analysis of 140 previously published and unpublished case studies, in which a closed-ended questionnaire was used to extract information from the case studies. The main hypotheses and findings of the study concern the possible existence of two innovative processes, one that emphasizes service improvements but that does not necessarily lead to enduring incorporation of the innovation (production efficiency), and the other that emphasizes incorporation even where the innovation may not have produced a demonstrable service improvement (bureaucratic self-interest).
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