Engaging in Educational Research-Practice Partnerships guides academic researchers into forming mutually respectful, collaborative, and scalable partnerships with school practitioners. Despite robust theoretical and conceptual planning, research on learning is often removed from real settings and generates findings with limited practical relevance, yielding frustration for K-12 stakeholders. This book provides invaluable resources to researchers seeking to work with practitioners as they solve problems and improve outcomes while answering fundamental questions about who gets to generate knowledge, from where, to whom, and in what contexts. A range of illustrative case studies and strategies explores how to apply appropriate theories and methodologies, negotiate agendas that ensure mutually beneficial goals, determine the role of pracademics, establish institutional supports, policies, and procedures that amplify impact and sustainability, and much more.
Author(s): Sharon Friesen, Barbara Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 189
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Why this Book?
Galileo Educational Network
Partner-Research Schools
Organization of the Book
Chapter 2: What are Research-Practice Partnerships?
Introduction
Partnership: A Strategy for Making Research Matter
Types of Partnerships
How do Partnerships Start?
Teacher Professional Learning
Flipped Maths Classroom
Assessment
Projected Value of Educational Research Partnerships
Challenges
Indicators of Success
Lessons Learned
Possible Discussion Questions for New Research-Practice Partnership Teams
Chapter 3: Participatory Methodologies
Introduction
Participatory Paradigm
Matters of Ethics and Values
Design Research to Empower Learners and Promote Learning
Design-based Research
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Long-term Partnerships
Introduction
Pre-Planning: A Commitment to Collaboration
Initial Meetings with Partners
Creating Formal Legal Agreements
Importance of Legal Agreements
Legal Agreements: Just Good Practice
Starting the Real Work: Enacting the Collaboration
Establishing Collaborative Co-Design Teams
Working with a Co-Design Team
Developing a Proof of Concept
Mobilizing the Proof of Concept
Expanding Co-Design Teams
Enacting and Testing the Intervention/Solution
Scaling to District Level
Building Relational Trust
Lessons Learned
Chapter 5: A Partnership to Support Mathematics for Teaching
Introduction
Design-Based Professional Learning Within Design-Based Research
Theoretical Framework
Professional Learning Design
Methodology and Methods
Teacher Feedback
Artefacts
Visualizations
Professional Learning Series Materials
Co-Design Team Meeting Notes and Researcher's Field Notes
Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Partner-Research Projects
Recommendations
Educational Importance of this Case
Lessons Learned
Conclusion
Chapter 6: A Partnership to Support New Teachers to Become Learning Designers
Introduction
Methodology and Methods
Cycle 1
Cycles 2–4
Cycle 5
Challenges
Limited Classroom Observations
Limited Number of Cycles and Topics in DBPL Series
Limited Scope of the Research to the DBPL Series and No School-based Support
Lessons Learned
Partner Relationships are Important and Take Time to Develop
Ensure Continual Communications with all Team Members Throughout the Project
Plan for Sharing Workload and Providing Sufficient Time for Team Members to Provide Feedback and Complete Reports
Plan for Changes in Levels of Commitment to the Project
Take Time to Reflect on the Research Project and Celebrate Progress
Conclusion
Chapter 7: A Partnership Focused on Improving Teachers’ Assessment Literacy
Introduction
Methodology and Methods
Design Phase
Enactment Phase
Refinement Phase
Ways Participants Responded to the Phases of DBPL
Practice/Theory Impact
Challenges
Lessons Learned
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Research Supports for Collaborative Projects
Introduction
University Institutional Commitments, Supports, and Resources
Meeting Potential Partners
Administrative/Organizational Supports and Resources
Research Ethics
Title
Researchers
Conflict of Interest
Study Objectives and Design
Risks
Benefits
Participant Justification
Participant Identification
Data Withdrawal
Provisions for Data Security
Recruitment Notice, Consent Form, Instruments
School District Requirement to Conduct Research
Research Funding
Legal Support and Agreements
Services
Payment
Ownership of Work Products and Materials
Intellectual Property
Confidentiality/Non-disclosure
Publications
Data Sharing
Liability
Knowledge Mobilization
Tenure, Promotion, and Performance
Partner Institutional Commitments, Supports, and Resources
Conclusion
Note
Chapter 9: Developing Partner Projects
Introduction
Lesson 1 – Coming Together for Partner Research
Lesson 2 – Develop Partner Relationships
Lesson 3 – Converge Towards a Common Shared Purpose
Lesson 4 – Engage in Knowledge Mobilization
Lesson 5 – Build Capacity
Lesson 6 – Adapt to Unforeseen Circumstances
Lessons Learned
Conclusion
Chapter 10: Looking Ahead
Introduction
Long-Term Professional Learning and Educational Research Partnerships for Collaborative Knowledge Building
Initiating Partnerships for Research in Schools and in Collaboration with Schools
Evolving Partnerships
Looking Ahead and Future Research Directions
Co-design in Research Partnerships
Collaboration in Research Partnerships
Shared Epistemic Agency in Research Partnerships
Recommendations
Appendix A: Theory of Action
Appendix B: Sample Research Proposal
Research Team
Overview
Timeline
Budget
References
Index
