scholarly journals Recognizing and Transforming Knowledge Mobilization in Colleges of Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven John Zuiker ◽  
Niels Piepgrass ◽  
Adai Tefera ◽  
Kate T. Anderson ◽  
Kevin Winn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Research Use ◽  
Colleges Of Education ◽  
Knowledge Mobilization ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Faculty Survey ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Education Stakeholders

This study examines emerging efforts by three colleges of education to contribute to and benefit research use through public systems of knowledge exchange among researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and other education stakeholders. Often labeled knowledge mobilization (KM), such organization- and individual-level agendas seek to enhance, expand, and sustain engagement with educational research. Colleges of education with public KM agendas signal formal, local efforts at a time when KM remains weakly integrated field- and sector-wide in education. The study therefore illuminates the interdependent opportunities and challenges that accompany individual and organizational capacities for such change. Drawing on faculty survey responses (n=66), findings resolve scholarly practices in terms of both knowledge production and mobilization as well as in relation to individual and organizational agendas, which are considered in terms of four general tensions that influence efforts to extend the reach and impact of scholarship in colleges of education.

scholarly journals If Mobilizing Educational Research Is the Answer, Who Can Afford to Ask the Question? An Analysis of Faculty Perspectives on Knowledge Mobilization for Scholarship in Education

AERA Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 233285841775013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo E. Fischman ◽  
Kate T. Anderson ◽  
Adai A. Tefera ◽  
Steven J. Zuiker
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Colleges Of Education ◽  
Knowledge Mobilization ◽  
Faculty Perspectives ◽  
Faculty Careers ◽  
Faculty Surveys

This article explores faculty perspectives at three colleges of education regarding strategies of knowledge mobilization for scholarship in education (KMSE), with consideration for the opportunities and challenges that accompany individual and organizational capacities for change. Faculty surveys ( n = 66) and follow-up interviews ( n = 22) suggest two important trends: First, KMSE presents both a complementary agenda and a competing demand; second, barriers and uncertainties characterize the relevance of knowledge mobilization for faculty careers in colleges of education. This study empirically illuminates the persistence of long-standing challenges regarding the relevance, accessibility, and usability of research in colleges of education housed in research-intensive universities. While KMSE holds promise for expanding the reach and impact of educational research, scholarly tensions underlying these trends suggest that individual and organizational efforts will suffice only with modifications to university procedures for identifying what counts as recognizable, assessable, and rewardable scholarly products and activities for faculty careers.

Party Polarization, Ideological Sorting and the Emergence of the US Partisan Gender Gap

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1217-1243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Q. Gillion ◽  
Jonathan M. Ladd ◽  
Marc Meredith
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Party Polarization ◽  
College Degrees ◽  
The Us ◽  
Elite Level ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Election Studies ◽  
Mass Level

This article argues that the modern American partisan gender gap – the tendency of men to identify more as Republicans and less as Democrats than women – emerged largely because of mass-level ideological party sorting. As the two major US political parties ideologically polarized at the elite level, the public gradually perceived this polarization and better sorted themselves into the parties that matched their policy preferences. Stable pre-existing policy differences between men and women caused this sorting to generate the modern US partisan gender gap. Because education is positively associated with awareness of elite party polarization, the partisan gender gap developed earlier and is consistently larger among those with college degrees. The study finds support for this argument from decades of American National Election Studies data and a new large dataset of decades of pooled individual-level Gallup survey responses.

scholarly journals A smartphone game to prevent HIV among young Kenyans: Household dynamics of gameplay in a feasibility study

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 595-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Winskell ◽  
Gaëlle Sabben ◽  
Ken Ondeng’e ◽  
Isdorah Odero ◽  
Victor Akelo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Log Files ◽  
Household Dynamics ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Randomised Controlled ◽  
High Level ◽  
Survey Responses

Objective: mHealth interventions often favour individual-level effects. This is particularly problematic in contexts where social support and shifts in social norms are critical to sustained behaviour change. Mobile digital games represent a promising health education strategy for youth, including in low-resource settings. We sought to better understand the interpersonal and social interactions that can be elicited by digital games for health. Design: We piloted Tumaini, a smartphone game rooted in interactive narrative designed to prevent HIV among young Africans (aged 11–14), in a randomised controlled feasibility study and analysed reports of the household dynamics surrounding gameplay. Following a 16-day intervention period, phone gameplay log files were downloaded, and intervention arm participants ( n = 30) completed a gameplay experience survey; eight focus group discussions were held, four with intervention arm participants ( n = 27) and four with their parents ( n = 22). Setting: This study took place in Kisumu, Kenya, in Spring 2017. Method: Descriptive statistics were computed from survey responses and log files. Focus group transcripts were labelled, analysed thematically and compared demographically using MAXQDA software. Results: Data from log files, surveys and focus groups indicate that the game generated considerable interaction and dialogue with parents, siblings and friends and served as a catalyst for children to act as advocates for healthful decisions about sex, both within the family and beyond. The game showed a high level of acceptability with parents. Conclusion: Serious digital games using a smartphone platform can generate considerable household interaction. Games can model and facilitate these exchanges, maximising multi-level effects. An additional app for parents could reinforce these effects.

scholarly journals The effect of big-city news on rural America during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (36) ◽  
pp. 22009-22014
Author(s):  
Eunji Kim ◽  
Michael E. Shepherd ◽  
Joshua D. Clinton
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Local News ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Local Television News ◽  
Big City ◽  
Media Markets ◽  
Survey Responses

Can “urban-centric” local television news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic affect the behavior of rural residents with lived experiences so different from their “local” news coverage? Leveraging quasi-random geographic variation in media markets for 771 matched rural counties, we show that rural residents are more likely to practice social distancing if they live in a media market that is more impacted by COVID-19. Individual-level survey responses from residents of these counties confirm county-level behavioral differences and help attribute the differences we identify to differences in local television news coverage—self-reported differences only exist among respondents who prefer watching local news, and there are no differences in media usage or consumption across media markets. Although important for showing the ability of local television news to affect behavior despite urban–rural differences, the media-related effects we identify are at most half the size of the differences related to partisan differences.

Measuring Twitter Use: Validating Survey-Based Measures

2019 ◽  
pp. 089443931989624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Henderson ◽  
Ke Jiang ◽  
Martin Johnson ◽  
Lance Porter
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
User Characteristics ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Twitter Activity ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Observed Behavior

An important challenge for research on social media use is to relate users’ activity on these platforms to user characteristics such as demographics. Surveys allow researchers to measure these characteristics but may be subject to measurement error in self-reported social media use. We compare survey responses to observed behavior in order to assess the validity of self-reported frequency of posting to Twitter, retweeting content, sharing photos, sharing videos, and sending direct messages. Additionally, we examine correlations between self-reported and observed behavior across a range of time frames, from 1 month to 114 months before the survey. We find variation in the quality of self-reports across types of Twitter activity. We also find that self-reports about posting and retweeting tend to reflect recent activity, while self-reports about other activities tend to reflect behavior over a longer span. Furthermore, we find that two characteristics of experience with the platform—the length of time that a person has been active on Twitter and how much their activity on the platform changes over time—predict individual-level discrepancies between survey response and observed behavior, but these discrepancies cancel out when averaged across individuals. Nevertheless, other sources of bias remain. Taken together, our results indicate that while surveys are quite useful for collecting characteristics of social media users, relying on self-reported social media behavior distorts inferential results from what is found when relying on observed social media behavior.

Forging Foreign Policy: Organizational Identity and Knowledge Production

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 771-799
Author(s):  
Hana Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Intellectual Production

AbstractThe ideas and knowledge central to foreign policy are often produced within the context of organizations. How do organizations vet people and ideas for knowledge production? I use original data drawn from archives of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an organization that brought together elites with an interest in foreign policy, to examine the production of post–World War II US foreign policy knowledge. Drawing on literature about how organizations evaluate people and ideas, I assess how the CFR staff selected different foreign policy topics for their Program on Studies from 1955 to 1972. Case studies and multinomial logistic regression provide two forms of evidence: The justifications used by the CFR Program on Studies staff to select ideas and the relationship between recommendations of proposers and idea selection. I compare the effect of positive recommendations from different sources to distinguish between prioritizing quality and prestige and organizational identity on the other. Staff used the identity of the organization as a group of elites with particular expertise as a basis for making everyday decisions regarding which foreign policy knowledge would be codified in the program. In this way, the organization occupied a central position in the production of knowledge. This suggests that scholars of evaluation should attend to organization-level features in addition to individual-level characteristics. I discuss the implications for organizations and intellectual production.

Critical Knowledge Mobilization: Directions for Social Gerontology

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Amanda Grenier ◽  
Igor Gontcharov ◽  
Karen Kobayashi ◽  
Equity Burke
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Knowledge Mobilization ◽  
Social Gerontology ◽  
Critical Knowledge ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Level

ABSTRACT The concept of knowledge mobilization (KMb) is prominent in governance frameworks of tri-council funding in Canada. Yet there are a number of conceptual and practical challenges when such ideas are proposed for adoption across large multidisciplinary contexts. This research note introduces the concept of critical knowledge mobilization as a way to understand KMb in large multidisciplinary teams and social gerontology. It begins with a high-level sketch of the historic changes in knowledge production and knowledge sharing, followed by a definition of critical knowledge mobilization and examples of historical ideas and everyday tensions in practice. Building on these, we propose the need to advance and shift the culture of KMb, and to embark on engaged research as a means of innovation. We suggest that a reflexive process of critical KMb can facilitate innovation and promote a culture of knowledge mobilization in Canadian social gerontology.

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