Organizational Lessons for Professional Development School Partnerships: Seeking Sustainable Change

• In Event: Building Quality School-University Partnerships

Abstract

As Dewey once argued (1916), it is not enough to be good. We must be good for something. As researchers, we should consider this argument a call to use the insights we gain from our inquiry to bring about meaningful change. In particular, we should embrace the challenge of interdisciplinary analysis of our research in order to expand the potential impact we may have within teacher education. To this end, we use organizational theory as a lens to analyze the results of a ten-year qualitative meta-synthesis of educational research that explores the impact of research on professional development schools.

Authors

• Donna A. Breault, West Virginia University

• Rick A. Breault, West Virginia University