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3 produkter
Research-practice Partnerships for School Improvement
The Learning Schools Model
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
948 kr
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Thereis an increasing focus on research-practice partnerships that adopt research designsaimed at improving educationalpractice while advancing research knowledge. There is now a need for books thatprovide a theoretical and practical account of successful research designs thathave been tested and replicated over time and contexts. This book addressesthis need by providing thefirst comprehensive account of the Learning Schools Model (LSM), a design-basedresearch-practice partnership that has been tested over 15 years and across contexts and countries(n=5). This model has successfully built teacher and school capacity andimproved valued student outcomes for primarily indigenous and ethnic minority students from lowersocio-economic communities. Thequality of research into the model has been recognised locally andinternationally. The International Literacy Association reprinted a paper onthe original model in their volume “Theoretical models and processes of Reading(6th Ed)”. The authors won the University of Auckland’s Research ExcellenceAward (2015), awarded for research of demonstrable quality and impact,for their research into the Model.This book addressesseveral gaps in the existing literature on research-practice partnerships. Firstly, understanding applications incontexts beyond the USA where much of the seminal work is located adds to ourcollective understanding of contexts in terms of constraints and enablers. Secondly, we provide a theoretical accountof partnership development and demonstrate how these are practically developedin situ to address the known need for stronger theoretical understandings of partnershipdevelopment and better training in developing partnerships. Finally, our bookdemonstrates how research can be both responsive to context and yet have robustand replicable research designs that improve valued student outcomes over timeand contexts. This in turn provides an alternate research approach forcountries where randomisedcontrol trials are often the “gold standard” for interventions.
342 kr
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Relationality and Learning in Oceania
Contextualizing Education for Development
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
713 kr
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This multi-authored volume draws on the collective experiences of a team of researcher-practitioners, from three Oceanic universities, in an aid-funded intervention program for enhancing literacy learning in Pacific Islands primary education schools. The interventions explored here—in Solomon Islands and Tonga—were implemented via a four-year collaboration which adopted a design-based research approach to bringing about sustainable improvements in teacher and student learning, and in the delivery and evaluation of educational aid. This approach demanded that learning from the context of practice should be determining of both content and process; that all involved in the interventions should see themselves as learners. Essential to the trusting and respectful relationships required for this approach was the program’s acknowledgement of relationality as central to indigenous Oceanic societies, and of education as a relational activity.Relationality and Learning in Oceania: Contextualizing Education for Development addresses debates current in both comparative education and international aid. Argued strongly is that relational research-practice approaches (south-south, south-north) which center the importance of context and culture, and the significance of indigenous epistemologies, are required to strengthen education within the post-colonial relational space of Oceania, and to inform the various agencies and actors involved in ‘education for development’ in Oceania and globally. Maintained is that the development of education structures and processes within the contexts explored through the chapters comprising this volume, continues to be a negotiation between the complexity of historically developed local 'traditions' and understandings and the ‘global’ imperatives shaped by dominant development discourses.