Rethinking Scaling: A Reverse Gaze Approach

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The education sector has made rapid progress in recent years in understanding ‘what works’ in the scaling of educational interventions. This has underpinned the development of a variety of very useful and important scaling tools. While such technical approaches are of enormous value, their impact is mediated through the quality of their adaptation to the particular context in which they are deployed. Context, in turn, is best understood in terms of people: what they value, how they act, and how they organise themselves. The essence of the ‘reverse gaze’ approach emphasises this human side of scaling, and the importance of successful, trusting relationships in scaling successfully.

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