Adoption, Adaption, and the Iterative Challenges of Scaling Up in Vietnam: Policy Entrepreneurship and System Coherence in a Major Pedagogical Reform

This essay uses the case of VNEN, a pedagogical and curricular reform adapted to Vietnam from the Colombian Escuela Nueva (EN) model, to advance our understanding of the challenges policy entrepreneurs and networks of policy stakeholders can encounter in efforts to institute pathbreaking reforms and of the formidable challenges they can encounter in bringing such reforms to scale.