TY - JOUR AU - Leonard, Simon N. AU - Belling, Sarah AU - Morris, Alexandra AU - Reynolds, Eva PY - 2017/01/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Playing with rusty nails: ‘Conceptual tinkering’ for ‘next’ practice JF - EDeR. Educational Design Research JA - EDeR VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - Academic Articles DO - 10.15460/eder.1.1.1027 UR - https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/EDeR/article/view/1027 SP - AB - <p dir="ltr">An important issue for the Educational Design Research (EDeR) community to continue to deal with is the scalable and sustainable implementation of its methods, findings and designs beyond the bounds of specific projects. Those engaged in EDeR specifically seek out concurrent problems of theory and problems of practice, but this should not be seen as sufficient for ensuring their work has impact beyond their current project. Just as with other forms of research, EDeR practitioners must still reach out to and connect with educational institutions and teachers who are dealing with many competing demands.</p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-d1678618-8f05-ca63-62f1-170ac9fce346">This position paper offers a largely theoretical contribution to the discussion of the problem of implementation. It will introduce the concept of conceptual tinkering as an approach to engaging teachers in the skillsets and, more importantly, the mindsets of EDeR as an approach to educational improvement. Sketches and prototypes of tools to enable conceptual tinkering will be discussed. </span></p> ER -