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Research-Practice Partnerships in Education: Advancing an Evolutionary Logic of Systems Improvement

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Research-Practice Partnerships in Education: Advancing an Evolutionary Logic of Systems Improvement
Abstract/Description
Over the past several decades, scholars have proposed a number of innovative approaches to bridging the research-practice divide. A relatively new approach involves the formation of research-practice partnerships (RPPs), long-term collaborations aimed at educational improvement and transformation through engagement with research, intentionally organized to connect diverse forms of expertise and to ensure that all partners have a say in the joint work. Th is paper develops the idea that RPPs have the potential to create sustainable change, if they are able to support the mutual learning of partners to change practice while continuously adapting to turbulent environments of schools. As an illustration, the paper describes the evolution of an RPP in Colorado (U.S.A.) from a relatively small group of people representing a university and school district focused on a single line of research to an ongoing enterprise linking multiple researchers and educators to multiple lines of work to transform science teaching and learning in the district.
Author/creator
Penuel, William R.
Furtak, Erin Marie
Farrell, Caitlin C.
Date
2021
In publication
DDS – Die Deutsche Schule
Volume
2021
Issue
1
Pages
45-62
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Empirical
Open access/full-text available
en Yes
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISSN
00120731, 26995379
DOI
10.31244/dds.2021.01.05
URL
Open Access Publisher's Webpage (Waxmann)
Citation
Penuel, W. R., Furtak, E. M., & Farrell, C. C. (2021). Research-Practice Partnerships in Education: Advancing an Evolutionary Logic of Systems Improvement. DDS – Die Deutsche Schule, 2021(1), 45–62. https://doi.org/10.31244/dds.2021.01.05
Cited in
Democratizing Educational Innovation and Improvement: The Policy Contexts of Improvement Research in Education
Abbreviation
DDS
Item sets
Handbook Chapter 10 Citations

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