To Promote Research Is Not Enough: Research Capacity, Knowledge Mobilization, and Learning for Educational Change

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium advances AERA’s mission “to promote the use of research to improve education” by examining how such processes and outcomes can be achieved. We propose that ‘to promote research is not enough’ and argue for a focus on building research capacity, knowledge mobilization and professional learning. We present: an international review of universities and knowledge mobilization; the opportunities and dilemmas in the United States associated with federal policies, funding and developments concerning research rigor, relevance and use; the role of knowledge mobilization intermediaries across Canada; professional learning conversations for integrating research and practice knowledge in English schools; and, international evidence about developing capacity to engage in and with research at individual, organizational and system levels for educational changes.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Educational Change

Chair

• David Fulford, ADMO, ETD

Papers

• Universities and the Mobilization of Research Knowledge in Education: An International Perspective - Benjamin Levin, OISE/University of Toronto; Jie Qi, OISE/University of Toronto

• Challenges to Education Research in the United States: Turning Research Into Policy and Practice - Sarah A. Mason, University of Wisconsin

• The Missing Link? Intermediaries, Mediators, and Knowledge Brokers in Education - Amanda Cooper, Queen's University

• Learning Conversations as a Means to Deepen Practitioner Engagement With and Use of Research - Louise Stoll, Institute of Education - London

• Research to Know, to Understand and to Do: Building Capacities for Educational Change - Carol Campbell, University of Toronto - OISE

Discussants

• Ann Lieberman, Stanford University

• Mats Ekholm, University of Karlstad