Building Productive Relationships: District Leaders’ Advice to Researchers
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Building Productive Relationships: District Leaders’ Advice to Researchers
Abstract/Description
Expectations for the role of research in educational improvement are high. Meeting these expectations requires productive relationships between researchers and practitioners. Few studies, however, have systematically explored the ways researchers can build stronger, more productive relationships with practitioners. This study seeks to identify such strategies by examining district leaders’ views of how researchers might work with practitioners in more effective, beneficial, and collaborative ways. Through an analysis of 147 interviews with 80 district leaders in three urban school districts, we identify several key pieces of advice highlighted by district leaders for researchers. For researchers, these findings reveal potential strategies for shaping the design, conduct, and communication of their research in order to ensure its usefulness for practitioners.
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Date
In publication
Volume
12
Issue
4
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Empirical
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Open access/full-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
1555-5062
Citation
Harrison, C., Davidson, K., & Farrell, C. (2017). Building Productive Relationships: District Leaders’ Advice to Researchers. International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 12(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.22230/ijepl.2017v12n4a770
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Copyright (c) 2017 Christopher Harrison, Kristen Davidson, Caitlin Farrell
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