1st Edition

Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research Politics, languages and responsibilities

Edited By Tara Fenwick, Lesley Farrell Copyright 2012
264 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

How can educational research have more impact? What processes of knowledge exchange are most effective for increasing the uses of research results? How can research-produced knowledge be better ‘mobilized’ among users such as practicing educators, policy makers, and the public communities? These sorts of questions are commanding urgent attention in educational discourses and research... Read more

Introduction: Knowledge mobilization: The new research imperative Prof Tara Fenwick and Prof Lesley Farrell  Part 1: Considering the Issues and Players  1. Theory, Research and Practice in Mobilizing Research Knowledge in Education Ben Levin and Amanda Cooper  2. Exploring Strategies for Impact: Riding the Wave with the TLRP Andrew Pollard  3. ‘User Engagement’ and the Processes of Educational Research Anne Edwards  Part 2: Politics in Knowledge Flows: Research Meets Policy  4. Affairs of the Smart: How Researchers and Decision-makers Became Bedfellows in Education Charles Ungerleider  5. Knowledge Stocks and Flows: Research Meets Policy Jenny Ozga  6. Art, Community and Knowledge Flows  Margaret Somerville  7. Fighting for the Role of the Nation State in Knowledge Mobilisation and Educational Research: An Autoethnography of a Mobile Vietnamese Scholar Phan le Ha  Part 3: Languages and Enactments of Knowledge Mobilization  8. Finding Common Perspectives: Knowledge Mobilization in a Transnational Museum Project Ian Dyck  9. Bridging Journalistic-Academic Divides to Promote Democratic Dialogue and Debate Deirdre Kelly and Michelle Stack  10. Ethics and Experimennts with Art in Mobilizing Educational Research Tara Fenwick  11. Balancing Knowledge Management and Knowledge Mobility in the University Chris Chesher and Sarah Howard  Part 4: Responsibilities and Rights in Mobilizing Knowledge  12. Regulating Knowledge in the Global Knowledge Economy Michael Fraser  13. Scholarly Publishing, Knowledge Mobility and Internationalisation of Chinese Universities Rui Yang 14. Explicating a Shared Truth about a Colonial Past: Knowledge Mobilization, Coalition Building, Aboriginal Literature and Pedagogy Dolores van der Wey  15. Deparochializing Educational Research; Three Critical Illustrative Narratives Bob Lingard, Ian Hardy and Stephen Heimans 

Biography

Tara Fenwick is Professor of Education at the School of Education, University of Stirling in Scotland.

Lesley Farrell is Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Development in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.