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Sophie Rudolph; Eve Mayes; Tebeje Molla; Sophie Chiew; Natasha Abhayawickrama; Netta Maiava; Danielle Villafana; Rosie Welch; Ben Liu; Rachel Couper; Iris Duhn; Al Fricker; Archie Thomas; Menasik Dewanyang; Hayley McQuire; Sophie Hashimoto-Benfatto; Michelle Spisbah; Zach Smith; Tarneen Onus-Browne; Emma Rowe; Joel Windle; Fazal Rizvi – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
The question of how education research can be 'useful' is an enduring and challenging one. In recent years, this question has been approached by universities through a widespread 'impact' agenda. In this article, we explore the tensions between usefulness and impact and present six stories that reflect on research use with communities. These…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship, School Community Relationship, Research Utilization
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West, Mel – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2010
This paper reflects on experiences of working with schools in urban contexts as they have attempted to improve the quality of learning. Set within the context of the English education system during a period of intense national pressure to "raise standards", these experiences have been focused around issues of performance and leadership…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, Partnerships in Education, Change Strategies
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MacLeod, Andrea; Green, Sue – Studies in Higher Education, 2009
This article reflects on the experience of one UK higher education institution in its efforts to develop more effective support mechanisms for the growing numbers of students with Asperger syndrome and autism, in collaboration with a specialist support organisation. Case studies are used to illustrate the complex needs of this group of students.…
Descriptors: Disability Discrimination, Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Case Studies
Clifford, Matthew; Millar, Susan B. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ3), 2008
Federal programs, such as the National Science Foundation's Math and Science Partnership program, are promoting partnerships between K-12 school districts and higher education institutions (K-20 partnerships) in hopes of fostering greater alignment and cooperation among participating institutions and pooling resources to address persistent…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Allum, Keith F. – EDUCOM Review, 1991
Discussion of the advantages in collaboration between schools and colleges in the area of educational technology focuses on a case study of a project developed at the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology. Incentives for participation are discussed, and guidelines for success emphasize a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Cooperation, Educational Innovation
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Harrel, Peggy F. – SRA Journal, 1996
Examines both benefits and problems associated with collaborative projects, based on experiences of the University of Southern Indiana and 15 school corporations in the state to improve public school mathematics and science instruction. While the partnerships had many positive outcomes, the burden of preparing proposals and implementing projects…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Costs
Hurly, Paul – 1978
A general theoretical framework is provided for addressing two issues: (1) What is the meaning of coordination? and (2) How can the Saskatoon Region Community College effect coordination in metropolitan Saskatoon? Following the summary and introduction, the third of seven sections defines terms used in developing the framework. Terms include adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Cooperative Programs
Fordham, Paul, Ed. – 1985
This document contains the report and edited papers from an international seminar emphasizing the sharing of ideas and resources to eliminate illiteracy. Chapter I of the seven-chapter report offers background information and seminar objectives. Chapter II provides a world overview, which describes the general development context of literacy. In…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Developing Nations
Freeman, Evelyn B., Ed.; Peterson, Lee T., Ed. – 1982
This publication examines the process of networking, which is defined here as a framework to provide technical support between and among professionals. The process of networking is explored over a 7-year period as it served directors of the Midwest Teacher Corps, one of 12 networks established on a geographical basis by the Teacher Corps Program,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Higher Education
Schwartz, Terry Ann; And Others – 1982
A case study of interagency cooperation between the Danville (Virginia) public schools and the city's Parks and Recreation Department enabled researchers to examine the characteristics and components of interorganizational relationships in public education. Using naturalistic inquiry techniques, they gathered data through interviews with key…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, City Government, Community Attitudes
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Wildsmith-Cromarty, Rosemary – Language and Education, 2003
Discusses a case study in the learning and teaching of Zulu as an additional language. It involved the organic development of a mutually supportive relationship between two lecturers from separate disciplines who assumed multiple identities in order to more effectively collaborate in the revision and development of two graduate courses.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperation, Graduate Study, Second Language Instruction
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Glenny, Georgina – Support for Learning, 2005
"Better inter-agency working" has been the oft-quoted remedy to many reviews of services to support vulnerable children and young people, and yet outside the realms of tightly focused specialist teams it seems to be very difficult to achieve. Georgina Glenny here reviews three case studies of interdisciplinary and inter-agency working to examine…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Organizational Communication, Children, Interdisciplinary Approach
Iiyoshi, Toru, Ed.; Kumar, M. S. Vijay, Ed. – MIT Press (BK), 2008
Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the diversity of tools and resources already available--from well-packaged course materials to simple games, for…
Descriptors: Incentives, Access to Information, Instructional Design, Barriers
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Chavez, Vivian; Soep, Elisabeth – Harvard Educational Review, 2005
In this article, Vivian Chavez and Elisabeth Soep explore the collaboration among youth and adult participants at Youth Radio, a broadcast-training program in the San Francisco Bay Area. At Youth Radio, participants transcend the conventional relationship between adult "teachers" and youth "learners" to coproduce media…
Descriptors: Youth, Adults, Cooperation, Programming (Broadcast)
Mackler, Jill – 2001
The principal of an elementary school in Burlington, Vermont, briefly reflects on her experiences with implementing requirements for interagency collaborations. She notes that while collaboration and shared responsibility are clearly valuable in practice, collaboration is time consuming and may or may not be effective, especially when forced by…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Change Strategies
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