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Rowe, Patricia M. – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2015
This paper deals with the lack of attention to negative findings that has been found in cooperative education research and with issues that have been ignored by work integrated learning researchers. A review of the literature, an informal survey, and instances from the writer's experience provided many examples of negative results and…
Descriptors: Reflection, Researchers, Workplace Learning, Integrated Activities
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Rowe, Shawn M. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2016
Common sense and published literature both assert that education research is often dismissed by practitioners on the grounds that it is irrelevant to their work. Some have argued that this is due primarily to a mismatch of professional epistemologies. While agreeing in principle, this work draws on work in sociology (Erving Goffman) and literary…
Descriptors: Researchers, Teachers, Epistemology, Transformative Learning
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Guimarães, Helena; Fonseca, Cecília; Gonzalez, Carla; Pinto-Correia, Teresa – Journal of Research Practice, 2017
This article describes how a research institute went about reviewing the relationship between its members and external research partners in engaging in collaborative research. A systematization of experiences (SE) process was implemented to enable such review and draw implications for the institute's strategy regarding research into the…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Research, Sustainability, Agriculture
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Mejlgaard, Niels; Ryan, Thomas Kjeldager – Research Evaluation, 2017
In the context of growing societal demand and interdependency, universities need to prioritize their "third mission" activities and balance them against core functions. Individual researchers too are faced with multiple external constituencies and various mechanisms for interaction. The degree, target, and mode of their involvement with…
Descriptors: Scientists, Engineering, Researchers, College Faculty
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Bentley, Peter James; Gulbrandsen, Magnus; Kyvik, Svein – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
What is the central research activity in modern universities? This paper uses a comprehensive survey among individuals from 15 countries to map differences in orientation towards basic/fundamental research, applied/practical research and a combination of the two. Despite some claims in the literature that basic research is no longer a…
Descriptors: Universities, Research, Research Methodology, Intellectual Disciplines
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Quaynor, Laura J. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2015
Within the last 30 years, the African continent has experienced significant changes related to democracy, governance, and education; however, large-scale international studies of citizenship education have not included African nations. Despite this gap, youth political movements incubated in universities and secondary schools have been influential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Citizenship, History
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Frerichs, Leah; Kim, Mimi; Dave, Gaurav; Cheney, Ann; Hassmiller Lich, Kristen; Jones, Jennifer; Young, Tiffany L.; Cene, Crystal W.; Varma, Deepthi S.; Schaal, Jennifer; Black, Adina; Striley, Catherine W.; Vassar, Stefanie; Sullivan, Greer; Cottler, Linda B.; Brown, Arleen; Burke, Jessica G.; Corbie-Smith, Giselle – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Community-academic research partnerships aim to build stakeholder trust in order to improve the reach and translation of health research, but there is limited empirical research regarding effective ways to build trust. This multisite study was launched to identify similarities and differences among stakeholders' perspectives of antecedents to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Research, Stakeholders, Trust (Psychology)
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Young, Mitchell – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2015
At first glance Sweden looks like a researcher's paradise with high levels of GDP investment in research and high scores on citation indexes, yet recent studies have suggested that Sweden might be losing its edge in groundbreaking research. This paper explores why that is happening by examining researchers' logics of decision-making at a large…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Decision Making, Interviews
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Wilson, Jennifer – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Despite its imperfections, academic peer review has been accepted as a satisfactory process by which assessment panels comprised of different disciplinary representatives arrive at agreement through a system of shared rules and language that respects disciplinary plurality. Artistic researchers, whose output is required to meet both scholarly…
Descriptors: Art, Research, Peer Evaluation, Artists
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Brew, Angela; Boud, David; Lucas, Lisa; Crawford, Karin – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
International research collaboration raises questions about how groups from different national and institutional contexts can work together for common ends. This paper uses issues that have arisen in carrying out the first stage of an international research project to discuss a framework designed to map different kinds of multi-national research…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Research, Researchers, Difficulty Level
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Amundsen, Diana; Msoroka, Mohamed; Findsen, Brian – Waikato Journal of Education, 2017
The problematics of accessing res participants have been largely under-stated in the education research literature. This article discusses two case studies which illustrate the complexity of the process of access. This is complexity beyond ethical consent; it is the complexity of gaining access to research sites and participants and of ongoing…
Descriptors: Research, Sampling, Organizational Culture, Power Structure
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Mitton-Kükner, Jennifer – Professional Development in Education, 2016
The focus of this comparative qualitative study is on female teachers' experiences as teacher researchers in Canada and Turkey as they worked towards the completion of their postgraduate degrees in the midst of teaching full-time. Attending carefully to participants' accounts of time use during the research process revealed heavy time pressure as…
Descriptors: Females, Teacher Researchers, Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis
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O'Neil, Lauren Vega; Pakulak, Eric; Stevens, Courtney; Bell, Theodore A.; Fanning, Jessica L.; Gaston, Marci; Gomsrud, Melissa; Hampton Wray, Amanda; Holmes, Kerry B.; Klein, Scott; Longoria, Zayra; Reynolds, Mary Margaret; Snell, Karla; Soto, Annie; Neville, Helen – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2019
Translational research involving the development, implementation, and assessment of evidence-based interventions has shown promise in improving outcomes for children from lower socioeconomic-status backgrounds. One such approach involves 2-generation interventions, which target both children and their parents/caregivers. Here we traced the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Partnerships in Education, Early Intervention, College School Cooperation
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Wu, Yen-Chun Jim; Shen, Ju-Peng – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2016
Purpose: This study aims to provide a complete understanding of academic research into higher education for sustainable development (HESD). Design/methodology/approach: This study utilizes a systematic review of four scientific literature databases to outline topics of research during the UN's Decade of Education for Sustainable Development…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainable Development, Scientific Research, Comparative Analysis
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Montfort, Devlin; Brown, Shane; Shinew, Dawn – Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
Background: The personal epistemologies of engineering faculty are an important and as yet underinvestigated aspect of engineering education. In this study, personal epistemology is defined as the stances an individual takes on issues related to knowledge and knowing, such as what it means to know, what counts as knowledge, and what makes some…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, College Faculty, Epistemology, Teacher Attitudes
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