Negotiating Problems of Practice in Researcher-Practitioner Collaborations: Implications From Two Contrasting Cases

• In Event: Poster Session 10
  In Poster Session: Learning Sciences SIG Poster Session

Abstract

This is a study of the importance of “problem negotiation” in collaborations between teachers and researchers. The study presents contrasting cases of negotiation involving two different teacher networks in Chile that were seeking to use a web-based tool intended to facilitate conversation about teaching practice. Integrating a Design-Based Research (DBR) approach with a Design-Based Implementation Research (DBIR) approach we investigated the features of problem negotiation in the two cases studied. The study contributes to identify implications in researcher-practitioner negotiation of problems of practice, highlighting the brokering role that different types of actors can play.

Authors

• Florencia Gomez Zaccarelli, Stanford University

• Barry J. Fishman, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor