Overview
- The book presents an engaging and comprehensive analysis of the nature of the research knowledge-practice divide in educational organisations as well as an innovative practical response to the problem that has resulted in both greater organisational discourse about research as well as deeper incorporation of research knowledge into practice
- The book bridges a very difficult concept in many professions – the connection between research and practice – with an innovative approach to engaging leaders in a public school district in collaborative professional learning about relevant research and consideration of its implications for practice
- The model of Knowledge Cultivation described in this book – with its Professional Reading Series (weekly locally-relevant research analyses distributed to organisational leaders) – provides an innovative approach to fostering wide practitioner engagement with research that any organisation could implement successfully
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Over the last decade or two, there has been increasing consensus that academic research, if used judiciously to guide practice, improves both educational policy and pedagogy – ultimately leading to better outcomes for students. Yet, despite this potential, there remains a deep ravine between the body of knowledge built through research – especially at the intersection between specific interventions and improved student achievement – and the actions taken by policy makers, administrators, and classroom teachers in their regular practice. There are myriad reasons for this research-practice divide. Among them is that it is difficult for district-based people to access primary research. Furthermore, multiple waves of well-intentioned research-based but largely unsuccessful school reform efforts have resulted in skepticism among practitioners about research and, at the same time, damaged researchers’ credibility in the field.
This book is divided into three broad areas. First, it develops an engaging analysis of the root causes for the research-practice gap in education. Second, it describes the framework developed and used in a public school district by the author to address the root causes and provides evidence of its efficacy to facilitate greater incorporation of research into school- and district-level practice. Through a process the author calls Knowledge Cultivation, the framework uses weekly research summaries for district leaders that are relevant to their “real-time” issues along with suggestions about ways in which the research might be useful. The final section of the book includes the actual research summaries used by the author over a five-year period.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultivating Knowledge
Book Subtitle: Promoting Research to Enrich Everyday Practice
Authors: Scott Tunison
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-603-3
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-603-3Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 456
Topics: Education, general