Leveraging the Relationship: Knowledge Processes in School-University Research Networks of Master’s Programs

• In Event: Roundtable Session 21
  In Roundtable Session: Collaborative Partnerships That Build Professional Capacity for Schools and Universities

Abstract

This study investigated the way developing, sharing and using of research-based knowledge occurred in the school-university research network of a master’s program for in-service teachers in the Netherlands. Over a 10-month period a combination of quantitative and qualitative network data were collected. Data were analyzed at three network levels: school, pairs of master’s students and research supervisors, and individuals. Overall, results indicate that building knowledge productive partnership relationships in a master’s program is a complex endeavor. Although individual master’s students and research supervisors aimed for continuing knowledge processes in school and university after student’s graduation, few actually did. This study shows from a network perspective the complexities, challenges and potential of developing partnership relationships with schools in a master’s program.

Authors

• Frank Cornelissen, University of California - San Diego

• Yi-Hwa Liou, National Taipei University of Education

• Alan J. Daly, University of California - San Diego

• Jacqueline Van Swet, Fontys University of Applied Science

• Douwe Beijaard, Eindhoven University of Technology

• Theo C.M. Bergen, Radboud University Nijmegen