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The Role of Knowledge Brokers in Education Connecting the Dots Between Research and Practice
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.
Acknowledgements
About the editors
About the contributors
(Introductory Chapter - 1) – Joining Worlds: Knowledge Mobilization and Evidence-Informed Practice
Authors: Joel R. Malin and Chris Brown
(Chapter 2) –Educational Brokerage and Knowledge Mobilization in the United States: Who, What, Why, How?
Authors: Joel R. Malin, Chris Brown, and Angela Șt. Trubceac
(Chapter 3) - Push and Pull on Twitter: How School Leaders Use Twitter for Knowledge Brokering
Authors: Jayson W. Richardson, Nicholas J. Sauers, Vincent Cho, and John Eric M. Lingat
(Chapter 4) – Evidence for the Frontline: More Questions than Answers
Authors: Caroline Creaby and Jonathan Haslam
(Chapter 5) - Fostering Improved Connections Between Research, Policy and Practice: The Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research
Authors: Doris McWhorter, Erica van Roosmalen, Donna Kotsopoulos, George Gadanidis, Ruth Kane, Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, Carol Campbell, Katina Pollock, and Davoud Sarfaraz
(Chapter 6) - Avenues of Influence: An Exploration of School-Based Practitioners as Knowledge Brokers and Mobilizers
Authors: Elizabeth Farley-Ripple and Sara Grajeda
(Chapter 7) – Knowledge Brokering: "Not a Place for Novices of New Conscripts"
Authors: Amanda Cooper, Joelle Rodway, Stephen MacGregor, Samantha Shewchuk, and Michelle Searle
(Chapter 8) - What is the Research Brokerage Role that can be Played by Social Relationships? Learning from a Quantitative Study from England
Author: Chris Brown
(Chapter 9) - Building Student Teachers’ Capacity to Engage with Research
Authors: Georgeta Ion and Joaquin Gairín
(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
Author: Nina Bremm and Veronika Manitius
(Chapter 11) - The Role of Brokers in Sustaining Partnership Work in Education
Authors: Kristen L. Davidson and William R. Penuel
(Chapter 12) - Using frameworks and models to support knowledge mobilization
Author: Vicky Ward
(Culminating/Moving Forward - Chapter 13) – Conclusion: The Future of Research Use?
Author: Christopher Lubienski
Biography
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.