Introduction to Research-Practice Partnerships (EDUC 352A)
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Introduction to Research-Practice Partnerships (EDUC 352A)
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There is currently more talk than ever about the role research should play in improving educational practice. Researchers wonder why some research ends up being influential in policy and practice while other research does not. Funders want to find ways that their investment in research can be more influential. These questions have been the focus of considerable discussion in the US. Three major task force reports have investigated the relationship between research and practice, calling for changes in business as usual (National Academy of Education, 1999; National Research Council, 2003, 2012), and several foundations, including the Spencer Foundation and National Science Foundation, recently have funded research-practice partnerships.
Much of the discussion about the relationship between research and practice is normative: people argue about how practitioners or policymakers should use research or how the research enterprise should be reorganized. In this class we will investigate what we know from conceptual and empirical scholarship about the relationship between research and practice and the efficacy of different approaches for bringing the two closer together.
This course is an introduction to education research-practice partnerships (RPPs). We will examine the distinctive characteristics of education research-practice partnerships (RPPs), how RPPs differ from other efforts to improve education, and the types of questions that have been explored by RPPs. We will read about and discuss different types of RPPs including design-based implementation research, networked improvement communities, and community-engaged research. We will then focus in more depth on design-based implementation research (DBIR), examining the theories and methodologies used in DBIR, and reading and discussing projects that DBIR scholars have conducted.
Much of the discussion about the relationship between research and practice is normative: people argue about how practitioners or policymakers should use research or how the research enterprise should be reorganized. In this class we will investigate what we know from conceptual and empirical scholarship about the relationship between research and practice and the efficacy of different approaches for bringing the two closer together.
This course is an introduction to education research-practice partnerships (RPPs). We will examine the distinctive characteristics of education research-practice partnerships (RPPs), how RPPs differ from other efforts to improve education, and the types of questions that have been explored by RPPs. We will read about and discuss different types of RPPs including design-based implementation research, networked improvement communities, and community-engaged research. We will then focus in more depth on design-based implementation research (DBIR), examining the theories and methodologies used in DBIR, and reading and discussing projects that DBIR scholars have conducted.
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Date
Unit/school
Graduate School of Education
Institution
Stanford University
Resource type
Education/Pedagogical Resource
Pedagogical resource type
en
Syllabus
Area/Discipline
Education Studies
Intended audience level/student group
Undergraduate
IRE Approach/Concept
Open access
Yes
Citation
Borko, H. (2020). Introduction to Research-Practice Partnerships. Stanford University. https://canvas.stanford.edu/courses/126493
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