Session Information
15 SES 13, Networks in Education: How Are They Developed and Studied?
Symposium
Contribution
The Schools-University Partnership for Educational Research (SUPER) is a long-standing research collaboration between schools and the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. The current agreed aim of this collective endeavour is to understand the development of research cultures in partnership schools. This paper reports on a comparison of two partnership schools that differed in their developmental stages of their research cultures (one school has been involved in the partnership from the start and other one recently joined). In exploring the differences between research cultures a social network approach was adopted. Network data was collected through an online survey among staff at partnership schools to examine their collegial relationships related to research activities (e.g.relationships of research-based knowledge exchange, research-related advice, and collaboration in research). Research cultures were examined with software for network analysis (UCINET,NetDraw). Networks were visualized and measures of density, reciprocity and centrality were calculated. Outcomes showed distinct differences between the schools’ network structures. To better understand these differences four teachers were interviewed in each setting (two central and two peripheral in their school’s research network) on their perspectives of research cultures in their schools. Results describe the differences between social structures of established and developing research cultures in schools.
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