“…Innovation promises change. This claim becomes particularly clear in the field of early education with regard to the large number of initiatives that have been launched, for example in order to improve the quality of educational organizations and pedagogical interaction in the last few decades (Edelmann and Roßbach, 2017;Jergus and Thompson, 2017). However, an innovation can neither be forced nor adopted ad hoc, because it is a complex, selective process of understanding and adding situated meaning to an intended innovation in education (Euler and Sloane, 1998;Fend, 2009;Bormann, 2013).…”