Examining Facilitation in Research-Practice Partnerships

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this symposium, three research teams present on their work examining, interrogating, and improving the practice of facilitation in research-practice partnerships (RPPs). We focus on facilitation as a response to Coburn and Penuel’s (2016) call to examine strategies in partnership work, particularly as it pertains to the implementation and use of tools, routines, and strategies. Focusing on enactment of partnership work, with facilitation as one dimension of enactment, is critical for advancing the field in understanding facilitation practices that are productive for partnerships. How partnership work is enacted, performed, and facilitated is an area requiring further research. The authors in this symposium present on the varied ways they examine facilitation in RPPs.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 9: Policy Implementation and Going to Scale

Chair

• Carlos Sandoval, WestEd

Papers

• The Production of Power Through Facilitators' Inscription of Commitments Into a Driver Diagram in a Networked Improvement Community - Carlos Sandoval, WestEd

• Using Intermediary Frameworks to Facilitate Equitable Co-Design Projects - Ethan Rubin, University of California - Irvine

• Conceptualizing the Facilitator's Role to Center and Ensure Equity Within Research-Practice Partnerships - Dana Marie Conlin, University of California - Irvine

• Role of Facilitation in Legitimizing Community Knowledge: A Critical Reflection on Knowledge Creation - Leiny Garcia, University of California - Irvine; Vanessa Noemy Bermudez, University of California - Irvine

Discussant

• Maritza Lozano, California State University - Fullerton