1st Edition
Research-Practice Partnerships in Education Practitioner-Researcher Collaboration in the Israeli Context
Foreword: RPPs in Context: Practice Makes Perfect Joshua Glazer
Introduction: Research-Practice Partnerships in the Israeli Context Linor L. Hadar and Hadar Baharav
Part One: Research-Practice Partnerships in Education: From Theory to Practice
1. Research-Practice Partnership: Definition, Models, and Merit Hadar Baharav and Linor L. Hadar
2. The LAB – A Network of Research Schools Linor L. Hadar and Hadar Baharav
Part Two: The LAB Research-Practice Partnership: Pictures of Practice
3. Rediscovering the Essence of Play: The Journey of the Playschool Ela Luria
4. Mirrors of Progress – A Comparative Perspective of Two Innovative Schools Exploring Social and Emotional Learning Haneen Vasel
5. Two Voices of a Research Practice Partnership: The Perspectives of a School Principal and Researcher Naomi Vered and Bracha Alpert
6. Exploring a Research-Practice Partnership in a Special Education School for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder Mati Zakai-Mashiach
7. Implementing School-Based Research: Practitioners’ Lessons Learned Debbie Zehavi and Nirit Ben-Yitzchak
8. A Practitioner’s View of a Research-Practice Partnership: “Things seen from there” Etan Cohen
9. An Integrative Perspective on Collaboration in Research-Practice Partnership Hadar Baharav and Linor L. Hadar
Part Three: Going Beyond: Bringing in Theory and Empirical Research to Advance the Field
10. Dynamics of Role Formation in a Research-Practice Partnership Linor L. Hadar, Hadar Baharav, and Etan Cohen
11. Research-Practice Partnership as a Model for Teacher Professional Learning Linor L. Hadar and Nili Yitschaki
12. Learning From One Another in a Research-Practice Partnership: Boundary Spanning and Boundary Work Etan Cohen
13. Adapting the RPP Model to Non-US Contexts: Broadening the Perspective Hadar Baharav and Linor L. Hadar
Biography
Linor L. Hadar is Associate Professor, Department of Learning and Instructional Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel.
Hadar Baharav is the Director of the Center for the Study of Pedagogy - Research-Practice Partnerships, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
“This book advances the field’s understanding of how context matters for the processes and outcomes of education research-practice partnerships. This comprehensive book allows readers to explore how conditions in the Israeli educational context compare to the existing RPP research.”
Laura Wentwaorth, Director of Research-Practice Partnership Program, California Education Partners
“This book offers readers a penetrating, detailed, and refreshingly honest look at the messy and contradictory world of research-practice partnerships. The authors, who include teachers, teacher educators, and researchers, unveil the variety of interests, motivations, roles, identities, and perspectives of the partners in an Israeli teacher research partnership. It invites the field to take seriously the contexts in which we seek to construct partnerships – organizational, cultural, systemic, national contexts – that make those partnerships so challenging and so necessary.”
Adam Lefstein, Morton L. Mandel Director, Seymour Fox School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
