Title: Mapping innovation in educational contexts: drivers and barriers

Authors: Lídia Serra; José Matias Alves; Diana Soares

Addresses: Research Centre for Human Development, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Portuguese Catholic University, Oporto, Portugal ' Research Centre for Human Development, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Portuguese Catholic University, Oporto, Portugal ' Research Centre for Human Development, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Portuguese Catholic University, Oporto, Portugal

Abstract: The present demand for school transformation considers innovation a tool that operates in a triangle of strengths: leadership, school cultures, and school accountability. Considering the growth and diversification of literature on this subject, we propose discussing the factors influencing innovation. This article exposes a literature review focused on the systematisation of factors that foster or inhibit innovation, presenting a qualitative classification sustained on two main criteria: organisational capital and professional capital. The built typology harmonises criteria concerning innovation's functional, strategic, relational, behavioural, and environmental aspects. Additionally, it aims to fulfil an epistemic, phenomenological, and propositional purpose. The typology congregates a scheme of constructs that integratively systematise and organise 118 factors described in the literature that influence the school's organisation.

Keywords: innovation; typology; transformational capital; organisational capital; professional capital.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIL.2024.135169

International Journal of Innovation and Learning, 2024 Vol.35 No.1, pp.74 - 98

Received: 02 Aug 2022
Accepted: 04 Jan 2023
Published online: 01 Dec 2023 *

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