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ERIC Number: ED641321
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Jul
Pages: 103
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Understanding Brokerage in Education: Forward Tracking from Research to Practice
Samantha Shewchuk; Elizabeth N. Farley-Ripple
Center for Research Use in Education
Current research aiming to understand the gaps between research and practice in K-12 education often overlooks the importance of grasping the indirect relationships that develop between research and practice communities via the various people and organizations positioned to serve as knowledge brokers. The purpose of this study is to understand both how research brokerage by such individuals and organizations can lead to research use and how knowledge brokers can be leveraged to better support research use in practice. Specifically, this study aims to identify what happens in the space between research and practice by using qualitative methods to explore three areas of inquiry: (1) understanding which individuals and organizations serve as knowledge brokers, (2) understanding the types of research-based products that move through brokerage systems and how research-based products are transformed in that system, and (3) understanding the paths by which information moves from research into practice. To better understand what occurs between the production of research findings and their ultimate use, the authors focus on the set of actors, activities, motivations within which research is exchanged, transformed, and otherwise communicated--that is, the dynamic and complex phenomenon of brokerage. For the backward tracking study in 2022, four cases were examined the brokerage process through a five-step approach to produce credible stories of what happens as research moves between research and practice. This report which is the forward tracking study, researchers trace how findings from four education research projects were mobilized to encourage the use of the research.
Center for Research Use in Education. Center for Research in Education and Social Policy, University of Delaware, 125 Academy Street Suite 107 Pearson Hall, Newark, DE 19716. Tel: 302-831-2928; e-mail: crue-info@udel.edu; Web site: https://crue.cehd.udel.edu/
Related Records: ED627969
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Authoring Institution: University of Delaware, Center for Research Use in Education (CRUE)
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305C150017