How educational intermediaries connect research and practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Joel R. Malin
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Education System ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Knowledge Brokers

Indirect routes to strengthening research-practice connections, through intermediaries or knowledge brokers, have received little emphasis in discussions of education research and practice. Joel Malin compares direct and indirect approaches to making these connections and considers how indirect actors are situated in the education system and what roles and functions they perform. He describes some of the well-known intermediaries, assesses the effects of their efforts, and offers ideas for moving forward.

Flying Faster than the Birds and the Bees

2016 ◽  
pp. 170-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Burnes
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Positive Approach ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Human Sexuality Education ◽  
Sex Positive

The need for multicultural education to analyze human sexuality education is an area of critical need in research and practice. Many current human sexuality learning experiences contain practices that are shaming to learners, producing values that problematize sexuality. The author of this chapter introduces a sex-positive approach to human sexuality education, honoring multicultural education by intentionally understanding sex-positivity outside of a White, western context. Implications of this approach for education research, practice, training, and advocacy are discussed.

Rediscovering the Art of Nursing to Enhance Nursing Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Henry
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Nursing Education Research

There is wide agreement that nursing practice is a combination of art and science. While the science is easily found in nursing education, research, and practice, the art is overshadowed. Philosophical and theoretical discussions on the art of nursing are plentiful, but research demonstrating its importance to nursing practice is lacking. In this article, the nature of nursing is explored separate from science, and a comprehensive exploration of the literature on the art of nursing is presented. Three themes concerning the art of nursing are identified and discussed, including implications for research, practice, and education.

Will a Clinical Approach Make Education Research More Relevant for Practice?

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 412-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacquelien A. Bulterman-Bos
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Clinical Approach ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Work Roles ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Way

The way in which researchers view education differs fundamentally from the way in which teachers view education. These different outlooks are (partly) a consequence of the different work roles of researchers and teachers. This article explores the question of whether it is really inevitable that research and practice each establish different views of education. The author shows that the definition of the role of researchers draws heavily on a dualistic view that separates knowledge from skill and detaches human intellectual faculties from other human faculties. Although such dualistic notions are highly contested nowadays, they are institutionalized in the definition of the work of researchers and the purpose of research. The contribution of this article lies in the presentation of a unifying framework in which the views of teachers and researchers can be (at least partially) reconciled in the context of clinical research practice.

Flying Faster than the Birds and the Bees

2021 ◽  
pp. 1089-1102
Author(s):  
Theodore Burnes
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Positive Approach ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Human Sexuality Education ◽  
Sex Positive

The need for multicultural education to analyze human sexuality education is an area of critical need in research and practice. Many current human sexuality learning experiences contain practices that are shaming to learners, producing values that problematize sexuality. The author of this chapter introduces a sex-positive approach to human sexuality education, honoring multicultural education by intentionally understanding sex-positivity outside of a White, western context. Implications of this approach for education research, practice, training, and advocacy are discussed.

Whose futures need crafting? A collaborative evaluation of the British Council/Crafts Council Crafting Futures 5K grant scheme

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Kelly ◽  
Sandra Fruebing
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Radio Signal ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
British Council ◽  
Grant Scheme ◽  
Collaborative Evaluation

Sandra Fruebing and Rachel Kelly were recipients of 2018–19 British Council/Crafts Council Crafting Futures 5k grants. A dialogue between Fruebing and Kelly started when they both returned from their project work in Egypt and the Philippines respectively. Both participants related their experiences through their conversations and this led them to discuss and reflect through regular online exchanges stretching from 2019 to 2020. They both are now considering how their experiences of working with marginalized craft communities have become a position from which to consider the role of development in Art & Design Higher Education research and practice. The spectrum of collaboration and companionship that is emerging from their work, both individually and through online meetings and conversations, become like a radio signal, which is tuning and making audible their similar experiences and understandings.

Understanding knowledge brokerage and its transformative potential: a Bourdieusian perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Chew ◽  
Natalie Armstrong ◽  
Graham P. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Healthcare Research ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Knowledge Brokering ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Knowledge Brokerage ◽  
Knowledge Brokers ◽  
Institutional Boundaries

Background: Knowledge brokering is promoted as a means of enabling exchange between fields and closer collaboration across institutional boundaries. Yet examples of its success in fostering collaboration and reconfiguring boundaries remain few.Aims and objectives: We consider the introduction of a dedicated knowledge-brokering role in a partnership across healthcare research and practice, with a view to examining the interaction between knowledge brokers’ location and attributes and the characteristics of the fields across which they work.Methods: We use qualitative data from a four-year ethnographic study, including observations, interviews, focus groups, reflective diaries and other documentary sources. Our analysis draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptual framework.Findings: In efforts to transform the boundaries between related but disjointed fields, a feature posited as advantageous – knowledge brokers’ liminality – may in practice work to their disadvantage. An unequal partnership between two fields, where the capitals (the resources, relationships, markers of prestige and forms of knowledge) valued in one are privileged over the other, left knowledge brokers without a prior affiliation to either field adrift between the two.Discussion and conclusions: Lacking legitimacy to act across fields and bridge the gap between them, knowledge brokers are likely to seek to develop their skills on one side of the boundary, focusing on more limited and conservative activities, rather than advance the value of a distinctive array of capitals in mediating between fields. We identify implications for the construction and deployment of knowledge-brokering interventions towards collaborative objectives.<br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>Knowledge brokers are vaunted as a means of translating knowledge and removing barriers between fields;</li><br /><li>Their position ‘in between’ fields is important, but their influence in those fields may be limited;</li><br /><li>Lacking the resources and relationships to work across fields, they may align with only one;</li><br /><li>Both the structure of fields and the prior knowledge and habitus of brokers will influence knowledge brokerage’s success.</li></ul>

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