Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Knowledge Mobilization

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.

scholarly journals Knowledge Mobilization in Canadian Educational Research: Identifying Current Developments and Future Directions

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Snezana Ratkovic ◽  
Dolana Mogadime ◽  
Terry Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Knowledge Network ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Knowledge Mobilization ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Education Journal ◽  
Applied Education

In this special issue of Brock Education: Journal for Educational Research and Practice, we build on the knowledge mobilization (KMb) discourses initiated by the Ontario Ministry of Education (MOE), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research (KNAER), Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), and School District-University Research Exchange (SURE) network. We feature five journal articles and a book review addressing the three main KMb questions: How to assess KMb efforts across educational systems?  To what extent do educators use research to inform their praxis? How to make KMb work?

scholarly journals Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research: Politics, Languages, and Responsibilities

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghazala Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Knowledge Mobilization

In this book, Tara Fenwick and Lesley Farrell scrutinize the concept of knowledge mobilization by posing the following question: “Who determines what counts as impact, and for what purposes and what are the consequences of distinguishing users from producers in educational knowledge and research, and who benefits from such distinctions?” (p. 2). To answer this question, the editors focused on the following themes: considering the issues and the players, politics in knowledge flows, languages and enactments of knowledge mobilization, and responsibilities and rights in mobilizing knowledge. Fenwick and Farrell organized this book into four sections and 15 chapters to address the growing need for clarity around knowledge mobilization issues in educational research in Europe, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, China, and Russia.

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.

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