ABSTRACT
Sustainable success of school development projects depends on the effective transfer and implementation of the newly achieved knowledge on school and system level. At the system level sustainability can be achieved through successful dissemination of knowledge that helps to support a larger group of schools. A good starting point for such dissemination seems to be a close cooperation between different stakeholders in the educational system. Against this background, questions arise regarding what kinds of knowledge are relevant for questions of transfer, how such knowledge can be determined, and how effective ways of transferring it can be described. Accordingly, this chapter discusses: (1) what knowledge (data, strategies and processes) is beneficial for successful development in deprived contexts, (2) how this knowledge can be assessed for relevance to the overpass in systemic structures, and (3) what characteristics of cooperation between different stakeholders foster or hinder this processes. Therefore the paper draws on theoretical suggestions on challenges and benefits of cooperation between different stakeholders in the educational system, methods of knowledge management, and implementation research.
