Research of the Relative Advantage in the Commitment to a Pedagogical Innovation and Adaptation Inspired by Freinet Pedagogy

Abstract

In our paper we would like to publish the results of our examination on the relative advantage connected to the innovation of the Freinet Research Team (founded in 1989, in Benedek Elek Faculty of Pedagogy, Sopron). By application of Everett M. Rogers’s theory on ’diffusion of innovations’ and alluding to the results of our comparative analysis it can be stated that the kindergarten program recommendation of Freinet-spirit in Sopron had a relative advantage among the potential users in the expected character of the realization, from the points of view of kindergarten activity forms, is related to the role of the natural and social environment and considers a modified pedagogue and child role as well, in contrast with the valid central kindergarten regulatory items. These components of relative advantage could subserve the adaptation of the innovation of the Freinet Research Team.