A history of educators' concern with systematic production and utilization of educational knowledge (KPU) since the beginning of the century is presented. The influence of Paul Mort on the KPU tradition from the 1930's to the 1960's, and of Federal policies on educational research and dissemination since the 1960's is investigated. (Author/MJB)

Conceptual background of current knowledge dissemination and utilization strategies are sketched in terms of three value orientations and four models of innovation diffusion. Future diffusion strategies in education are seen to be active and participative, building local capacities to find, review, adapt, and adopt locally relevant educational…

The primary categories of H. S. Bhola's CLER Model (configurations, linkages, environments, resources) were used to organize and annotate textual information presented to 24 specialists in education and in other professions who were involved with diffusion and adoption of knowledge. The specialists considered the Bhola method more effective than…