Research in the Workplace: The Possibilities for Practitioner and Organisational Learning Offered by a School-University Research Partnership

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Abstract

This chapter is simultaneously about school-University partnerships, it describes an instance of a specific school-university research partnership, and its writing is a living exercise in partnership. It presents a review of literature outlining the subject of school-university partnerships, a practitioner perspective and a researcher perspective. The focus of the chapter is a discussion of the implications of the research process and findings for the development of practitioner research arising from school-university research partnerships.

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Education Researcher Participant Teacher Shared Expertise Case Study School Zealand School 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Auckland University of TechnologyAucklandNew Zealand
  2. 2.Rosehill CollegeAucklandNew Zealand

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