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This edited volume broadens the discussion on Research-Practice Partnerships (RPPs) in education by extending the focus beyond the U.S. context, providing an in-depth exploration of an RPP designed to enable partnering schools to evaluate and understand pedagogical processes or practices through engagement in school-based research.
List of contents
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 the 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
About the author
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.
