21.022 - The Influence of Context and Variability on the Research-Practice Partnerships: An International Perspective

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

There is an increasing focus on research-practice partnerships that adopt research approaches aimed at improving educational practice while advancing research knowledge. Such partnerships are grounded in and mutually shaped by practice. Hence the contexts of the practice and the variability across them influence the partnerships, research design and implementation considerably. This symposium presents three research-practice partnerships in New Zealand, Chile and Norway that capitalized on local contexts and variability to build school and teacher capability and improve valued student outcomes. Collectively, these cases present a theoretical and empirical account of the importance of understanding contexts and variability in such partnerships.

Sub Unit

• Division H - Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools

Chairs

• Mei Kuin Lai, The University of Auckland

• Cindy Louise Poortman, University of Twente

Presenters

• Stuart Mcnaughton, The University of Auckland

• Ernesto Treviño, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

• Lise Vikan Sandvik, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology

• Henning Fjørtoft, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Discussants

• Catherine E. Snow, Harvard University

• Carol Campbell, University of Toronto - OISE