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Research and Practice in Education

Coburn, Cynthia E.; Stein, Mary Kay

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Description for Research and Practice in Education Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
That there is a divide between research and practice is a common lament across policy-oriented disciplines, and education is no exception. Rhetoric abounds about the role research plays (or does not play) in the improvement of schools and classrooms, and policy makers push solutions that are rooted in assumptions about the way that research should influence practice. Yet few people have studied the relationship between research and practice empirically. This book presents findings from a series of interlocking case studies of nationally visible R&D projects, with a unique focus on how researchers and practitioners actually worked together, and the policy, ... Read more

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Hardback

Publication date

2010

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield United States

Number of pages

256

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New

Number of Pages

256

Place of Publication

Lanham, MD, United States

ISBN

9780742564060

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V9780742564060

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About Coburn, Cynthia E.; Stein, Mary Kay

Cynthia E. Coburn is Associate Professor in Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation at University of California at Berkeley. Mary Kay Stein is Associate Director of the Learning Research & Development Center and Founding Director of the Learning Policy Center at University of Pittsburgh. She also holds a joint appointment at the University of Pittsburgh as professor of Learning ... Read more

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For all the rhetoric of linking research to practice, Coburn and Stein et al help us understand clearly how research and practice can come together to improve education in the United States. This book will set the agenda for future collaborations between researchers and practitioners committed to education reform and improvement.
Paul Goren, The Spencer Foundation This book is ... Read moreessential reading for all who work with schools to support improvement in the quality of instruction. The authors frame the question of how productive relations can be forged between research and practice as an empirical issue. Their findings are comprehensive and encompass the development of sustainable, long-term partnerships, the design of tools that bridge research and practice, and the development of school conditions that support teachers' learning. The image that emerges of successful researcher-practitioner partnerships is of complex, two-way relationships in which intermediary organizations frequently play a critical role. The work reported in this book has far-reaching implications for funders, for researchers and the type of work they conduct, and for intermediary organizations.
Paul Cobb, University of Notre Dame Whether you're thinking about implementing a new program, building a researcher-practitioner partnership, or having productive ideas travel to new sites, "What works?" turns out to be the wrong question. The right one is: What helps collaborative programs develop and take hold, and what causes problems? That's the question Coburn, Stein, and their colleagues explore. This book contains valuable lessons for researchers and administrators who want to make things better in our schools. You'll think differently about making change happen after reading it.
Alan H. Schoenfeld, University of California Coburn (Univ. of California, Berkeley) and Stein (Univ. of Pittsburgh), both education policy scholars, offer an insightful collection of empirical examples in which social and education theory has informed educational policy. This book's strength is its critical account of contexts where theory succeeded or failed to make long-lasting educational change. Vignettes contribute to the four useful policy perspectives: innovation-focused partnerships, tools for enabling theory into practice, conditions for knowledge development, and approaches for school districts to use research in decision making. The focus is a practical one....A useful entry point for theory-focused researchers wishing to join policy conversations. The strongest section deals with approaches to introducing theory into school district decision making. Yet, readers will find value throughout, as the book's central aim is to identify situations in which researchers' findings have resonated with educational decision makers so that theoretical perspective became part of policy making. The book could prove essential to those studying policy and curriculum theory in education, as well as public policy or administration researchers. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
CHOICE
Cynthia Coburn and Mary Kay Stein take aim at the idea that researchers can develop a set of plans or prescriptions that, if followed by practitioners, can transform teaching and learning....Although Coburn and Stein argue that the principal aim of their volume is to make visible the inner workings of research-practice partnerships, perhaps just as significant is the image these cases provide for what it means to bring about improvements to teaching and learning at scale.
Teachers College Record
I applaud Coburn and Stein and the contributions to this edited volume for systematically investigating an issue of utmost importance and relevance and recommend this book to innovators and designers (those whom Coburn and Stein identified as the new players in research
practice perhaps), researchers interested in impacting educational outcomes, and university leaders hoping to move their institutions toward locally embedded research. The book may also be helpful to school superintendents and principals, those whom the authors identified as increasingly bridging research-theory relationships, and funders, as a source of ideas for evaluating grant proposals that extol research-practice partnerships.
Journal of Educational Research
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