Community Research Collaboratives
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Community Research Collaboratives
Abstract/Description
This report discusses an approach to research and engagement that we call Community Research Collaboratives. Our goal is to further define and elevate an existing field of work currently under-recognized by academic researchers, philanthropists, and educational policy makers and practitioners. We describe CRCs as partnerships among community members, researchers, and/or educational institutions that work together to advance equity and justice by jointly creating new knowledge, policies, and/or practices that promote systemic change in educational systems and society. To initiate this study, we reached out to two funding organizations and two networks supporting research partnerships, conducting interviews of six leaders in order to vet the working definition. Using the resulting criteria, we identified seven existing collaboratives to learn from as subjects of this research. Subsequent interviews with 12 participants across these collaboratives yielded the following four core features of CRCs: (1) their commitment to systemic transformation, (2) their challenge to current knowledge structures as they prioritize community goals, (3) their understanding of research as a developmental process, and (4) their attention to effective collaboration. This report fleshes out these ideas and provides detailed snapshots of some of the representative organizations to illustrate how the core features are manifested in practice. We intend our analysis to highlight the unique attributes of CRCs, to boost their visibility in education, and to encourage funding support for this growing field.
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National Education Policy Center
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Empirical
Open access/full-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
No
Citation
York, A., Valladares, S., Valladares, M. R., Garcia, M., & Snyder, J. D. (2020). Community Research Collaboratives. National Education Policy Center & Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.
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 Introducing Improvement Research in Education |
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