ERIC Number: ED618689
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
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Learning at the Boundaries of Research and Practice: A Framework for Understanding Research-Practice Partnerships
Caitlin C. Farrell; William R. Penuel; Annie Allen; Eleanor R. Anderson; Angel X. Bohannon; Cynthia E. Coburn; Stephanie L. Brown
Grantee Submission
Given the rapid growth of research-practice partnerships (RPPs), we need a framework that helps the field understand how RPPs can facilitate organizational learning in service of local educational improvement and transformation. Drawing on sociocultural and organizational learning theories, we argue that learning can happen for the organizations engaged in RPPs at the boundaries of research and practice. Such learning is evident when there are changes in collective knowledge, policies, and routines of participating organizations, with implications for longer-term outcomes of educational improvement and transformation locally and more broadly. The degree to which organizations can make use of the ideas from the RPP is dependent, in part, on the presence and design of boundary infrastructure and the preexisting organizational capacities and conditions. We conclude with implications for those engaging in RPPs and future research. [This is the online first version of an article published in "Educational Researcher." For the final published version of this article, see EJ1334106.]
Related Records: EJ1334106
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305C140008