The Role of Knowledge Brokers in Education (eBook, ePUB)

Connecting the Dots Between Research and Practice
Redaktion: Malin, Joel; Brown, Chris

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This ground-breaking book comprehensively addresses an area of major and sustained concern: how to improve the use of research evidence and enhance educators' research engagement as a route to the improvement of educational practice. It focuses on the topic of knowledge brokering and mobilization in education, and its role in fostering evidence-informed practice.

Divided into three sections, each addressing a different role of knowledge mobilizers, the book is based in clear evidentiary grounding. The chapters:

• Explore payoffs and challenges of connecting research to practice
• Provide recommendations in relation to practice and decision-making
• Present organized and professionally-enhancing tools, strategies and insights

Written by internationally-recognized leaders and expert contributors, The Role of Knowledge Brokers in Education brings together extensive and global perspectives in an accessible yet comprehensive volume. This book is an invaluable resource for educational leaders worldwide who are interested in using or generating research for school improvement, as well as researchers, academics, and students in schools of education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429800757
• Artikelnr.: 57189823

Autorenporträt

Joel Malin is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Miami University-Oxford, Ohio. Chris Brown is Professor of Education in the School of Education and Childhood Studies, University of Portsmouth.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements About the editors About the contributors (Introductory
Chapter - 1) - Joining Worlds: Knowledge Mobilization and Evidence-Informed
Practice (Chapter 2) -Educational Brokerage and Knowledge Mobilization in
the United States: Who, What, Why, How? (Chapter 3) - Push and Pull on
Twitter: How School Leaders Use Twitter for Knowledge Brokering (Chapter 4)
- Evidence for the Frontline: More Questions than Answers (Chapter 5) -
Fostering Improved Connections Between Research, Policy and Practice: The
Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research (Chapter 6) - Avenues of
Influence: An Exploration of School-Based Practitioners as Knowledge
Brokers and Mobilizers (Chapter 7) - Knowledge Brokering: "Not a Place for
Novices of New Conscripts" (Chapter 8) - What is the Research Brokerage
Role that can be Played by Social Relationships? Learning from a
Quantitative Study from England (Chapter 9) - Building Student Teachers'
Capacity to Engage with Research (Chapter 10) - Cooperation between
Research, Practice and Administration as a Knowledge Transfer Strategy?
Insights from a School Development Project involving Schools in Socially
Disadvantaged Areas in Germany (Chapter 11) - The Role of Brokers in
Sustaining Partnership Work in Education (Chapter 12) - Using frameworks
and models to support knowledge mobilization (Culminating/Moving Forward -
Chapter 13) - Conclusion: The Future of Research Use?