| Title: |
What's the Use of Educational Research? Six Stories Reflecting on Research Use with Communities |
| Language: |
English |
| Authors: |
Sophie Rudolph (ORCID 0000-0001-6542-8858); Eve Mayes (ORCID 0000-0001-6741-2489); Tebeje Molla (ORCID 0000-0002-6848-3091); Sophie Chiew; Natasha Abhayawickrama; Netta Maiava; Danielle Villafana; Rosie Welch (ORCID 0000-0002-5485-1463); Ben Liu; Rachel Couper (ORCID 0000-0002-3762-7996); Iris Duhn (ORCID 0000-0003-3430-0717); Al Fricker (ORCID 0000-0002-5258-9174); Archie Thomas (ORCID 0000-0002-5460-5641); Menasik Dewanyang; Hayley McQuire; Sophie Hashimoto-Benfatto; Michelle Spisbah; Zach Smith; Tarneen Onus-Browne; Emma Rowe (ORCID 0000-0002-3747-8070); Joel Windle (ORCID 0000-0002-8544-9215); Fazal Rizvi (ORCID 0000-0002-0769-7635) |
| Source: |
Australian Educational Researcher. 2024 51(5):2277-2300. |
| Availability: |
Springer. Available from: Springer Nature. One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, NY 10004. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-460-1700; e-mail: customerservice@springernature.com; Web site: https://link.springer.com/ |
| Peer Reviewed: |
Y |
| Page Count: |
24 |
| Publication Date: |
2024 |
| Document Type: |
Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers |
| Descriptors: |
Educational Research; Theory Practice Relationship; School Community Relationship; Research Utilization; Partnerships in Education; Community Cooperation; Persuasive Discourse; Politics of Education; Commercialization; Value Judgment; Case Studies |
| DOI: |
10.1007/s13384-024-00693-5 |
| ISSN: |
0311-6999; 2210-5328 |
| Abstract: |
The question of how education research can be 'useful' is an enduring and challenging one. In recent years, this question has been approached by universities through a widespread 'impact' agenda. In this article, we explore the tensions between usefulness and impact and present six stories that reflect on research use with communities. These stories engage issues of the risk of usefulness, the time that is needed to work collaboratively for research usefulness, whether theories developed in universities can be useful to communities for understanding the problems they face, who has the power to steer research to serve their purposes, and how community collective action can enhance the usefulness of research. The article concludes with a section that reflects on the importance of continuing to engage with the debates about research use in often highly commercially oriented university environments. This article brings together diverse voices that wrestle with the politics of research use beyond the neat, linear narratives of change that impact agendas tend to portray. These illustrations of the ethical dilemmas encountered through navigating research use with communities contribute to an ongoing conversation about refusing capitalist and colonialist logics of research extraction while working within institutions often driven by such logics. |
| Abstractor: |
As Provided |
| Entry Date: |
2024 |
| Accession Number: |
EJ1443273 |
| Database: |
ERIC |