Beyond educator/practitioner binaries: overcoming barriers to cooperation using professional cultural axes
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Beyond educator/practitioner binaries: overcoming barriers to cooperation using professional cultural axes |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 3137 |
3415 | |
Book Title | Beyond binaries in education research |
Authors | Hartle, R. Todd (Author), Smith, Rosemary J. (Author), Adkison, Stephen (Author), Williams, D. J. (Author) and Beardsley, Paul (Author) |
Editors | Midgley, Warren, Tyler, Mark A., Danaher, Patrick Alan and Mander, Alison |
Page Range | 242-257 |
Series | Routledge Research in Education |
Chapter Number | 18 |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2011 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Taylor & Francis | |
Place of Publication | New York, USA |
ISBN | 9780415885126 |
Abstract | Although partnerships between discipline-based practitioners and educators are a powerful means of creating learning and teaching connections, these partnerships can easily suffer from professional culture differences that are often perceived as binary states. Based on the results of a previous study using the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) GK-12 program at Idaho State University (ISU GK12), this chapter describes how perceived stereotypical binaries between educators and practitioners were identified and negotiated in the ISU GK12 example. Professional culture differences in other educator-practitioner partnerships can be identified by focusing on instances where educators or practitioners use binary statements about personality quirks, experience levels, and stereotypes. By modeling these differences as continuous axes of professional values rather than binary stereotypes, the participants in or administrators of partnerships can move beyond the binaries and into effective conflict prevention and negotiation through a process of metacognition, cultural relativism, and communication. |
Keywords | discipline-based practitioners; educators; partnerships; cultural differences |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390499. Specialist studies in education not elsewhere classified |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | Idaho State University, United States |
Faculty of Education | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q0y1x/beyond-educator-practitioner-binaries-overcoming-barriers-to-cooperation-using-professional-cultural-axes
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