Mainstreaming Science Curricular Innovations: Lessons from the HSTP Experience

What are the challenges of mainstreaming curricular innovations? Perhaps, the effort should not be to mainstream specific curricular innovations, but to enable wider circulation to the enabling discursive practices in which in-situ curricular innovations can happen. Such innovations will not only suit the context in which they are engendered, and will also be more easily appropriated by the teachers. Discursive practices that promote innovation are, in turn, critically dependent on a democratic, dialogic collaboration between different stakeholders that recognises the centrality of empowered, capable teachers in the instructional dynamic.