SustaIN – Sustainable and meaningful interventions in educational contexts

The proposed workshops aim to address urgent questions within the evolving field of intervention research in a Swedish context.

As intervention results accumulate, questions arise bout the sustainability of interventions and the contextual fit of the interventions in local educational settings.

To address these questions, there is a need to move away from linear models of change within intervention research and acknowledge the dynamic complexity of educational contexts.

We have put up a team of researchers, who have conducted intervention projects at a large scale, situated within both preschool and school contexts, and spanning over both academic and behavioral domains.

Through a series of interconnected workshops, we plan to develop a framework for planning and conducting sustainable and meaningful interventions, which will be used in project and program applications.

In the first workshop, the designs and outcomes of previously conducted projects are analyzed using a theory of systems thinking.

Based on the analyses, a framework for planning sustainable and meaningful interventions is developed, which is further developed and validated in a broader national context through a scoping review of Swedish intervention research and a symposium, summoning a variety of researchers within the intervention research field.

The workshops intend to advance the field of intervention research and benefit educational research from both short-term and long-term perspectives.