Collaborating across the researcher-practitioner divide: Introducing John Dewey’s democratic experimentalism
Collaborating across the researcher-practitioner divide: Introducing John Dewey’s democratic experimentalism
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跨越研究者与实践者鸿沟的合作:介绍约翰·杜威的民主实验主义
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2017
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通讯作者:
M. Kelemen
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L. Vo;M. Kelemen
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to bridging the gap between researchers and practitioners. It does so by comparing the various models of academic-practitioner collaboration and introducing Dewey’s democratic experimentalism as a promising alternative.
Design/methodology/approach
The conceptual implications are drawn from an analysis and discussion of the literatures in the field of organizational knowledge production, co-production and Deweyan studies.
Findings
Democratic experimentalism offers a much needed platform for a collaborative relationship between academics and practitioners that leads to knowledge that is rigorous and relevant to practice.
Originality/value
While the current models of academic-practitioner collaboration provide mechanisms for knowledge co-production, the Dewey’s democratic experimentalism goes further to emphasize the nature of the relationship between academics and practitioners in such common endeavor to ensure that all of them are equal co-creators of knowledge.