How Much Reinvention Occurs?Charter

How Much Reinvention Occurs?
Charters and Pellegrin (1972) were the first scholars to recognize the occurrence of reinvention (although they did not use the term per se). These researchers traced the adoption and implementation of the educational innovation of differentiated staffing in four schools over a one year period. They concluded that differentiated staffing was little more than a word for most (teachers and administrators), lacking concrete parameters with respect to the role performance of participants word could (and did) mean widely differing things to the staff, and nothing to some. The innovation was to be invented on the inside, not implemented front time outside.These scholars noted the degree to which the innovation was shaped differently, in each of the four organizations they studied. One main reason wily these diffusion scholars were able to detect reinvention, while most previous scholars had ignored it, was that they investigated the implementation stage.