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Mentoring in Research-Practice Partnerships: Toward Democratizing Expertise

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Title
Mentoring in Research-Practice Partnerships: Toward Democratizing Expertise
Abstract/Description
Reconceiving relationships between universities, schools, and community organizations through research-practice partnerships, and building capacity for partnership work, necessarily entails rethinking the mentorship of graduate students. In this article, we describe our findings on what mentorship looks like in a now 9-year RPP focusing on educational equity through participatory approaches. The authors include the two project principal investigators and three doctoral students who participated at different stages of the project, one of whom is now a faculty member. In our analysis, we identify dimensions of a more horizontal form of mentorship, involving qualities and skills that extend beyond traditional practices of academic apprenticeship: universalizing who is an intellectual, cultivating community responsiveness, implementing collective structures and protocols, and constructing a shared vision. Our findings shift conceptions of mentorship from individual apprenticeship into a narrowly defined discipline to a collective undertaking that aims to democratize expertise and enact a new vision of the public scholar.
Author/creator
Ghiso, María Paula
Campano, Gerald
Schwab, Emily R.
Asaah, Dee
Rusoja, Alicia
Date
2019
In publication
AERA Open
Volume
5
Issue
4
Pages
1-12
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Empirical
Keywords
equity
research-practice partnerships
mentoring
immigrant students and families
participatory methodologies
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en Yes
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISSN
2332-8584
DOI
10.1177/2332858419879448
URL
Open Access Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Journals)
Citation
Ghiso, M. P., Campano, G., Schwab, E. R., Asaah, D., & Rusoja, A. (2019). Mentoring in Research-Practice Partnerships: Toward Democratizing Expertise. AERA Open, 5(4), 2332858419879448. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332858419879448
Cited in
Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research
Abbreviation
AERA Open
Item sets
Open Access Resource (IRE)
OB Citations - Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research
Ob Citations - Research–Practice Partnerships in Education Within the United States

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