Implementing Artifacts: Frame Analysis of Innovative Educational Practices

• In Event: 54.080 - Roundtable Session 22
  In Roundtable Session: 54.080-4 - Leading Educational Innovation Across Sectors

Abstract

Educational innovations are often materialized in artifacts, designed to support educational improvement. The study unpacked the intended use by the designers of one artifact (informative file to facilitate transfer of care-related data when students move from primary to secondary school) and compared it to its actual implementation. Unravelling the interaction between artifacts and the implementers as “interpretative negotiation” and drawing on frame analysis for explanation, the study identified three different configurations of implementation practices (faithful, selective and extended use). While theory-building in educational innovation has so far mostly focused on meaningful human interaction, this study widens the scope to also include the interactions between non-human ‘actors’ (the artifact carrying a normative call for change) and the human actors in implementation.

Authors

• Karen Vermeir, University of Leuven

• Geert Kelchtermans, University of Leuven

• Virginie Marz, Université Catholique de Louvain