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Holliman, Richard and Davies, Gareth
(2015).
URL: http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/14/03/JCOM_1403_2015_...
Abstract
In the past 25 years school-university partnerships have undergone a transition from ad hoc to strategic partnerships. Over the previous two-and-a-half-years we have worked in partnership with teachers and pupils from the Denbigh Teaching School Alliance in Milton Keynes, UK. Our aims have been to encourage the Open University and local schools in Milton Keynes to value, recognise and support school-university engagement with research, and to create a culture of reflective practice. Through our work we have noted a lack of suitable planning tools that work for researchers, teachers and pupils. Here we propose a flexible and adaptable metric to support stakeholders as they plan for, enact and evaluate direct and meaningful engagement between researchers, teachers and pupils. The objective of the metric is to make transparent the level of activity required of the stakeholders involved—teachers, pupils and researchers—whilst also providing a measure for institutions and funders to assess the relative depth of engagement; in effect, to move beyond the seductive siren of reach.
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- Item ORO ID
- 44415
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1824-2049
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Engaging opportunities: connecting young people with contemporary research and researchers (SE-12-098-RH) EP/K027786/1 RCUK (Research Councils UK) - Extra Information
- 10 pp.
- Keywords
- School-University Partnership Initiative; SUPI; engaged research; reflective practice; informal learning; community action
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Other Departments > Research, Enterprise and Scholarship
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- © The Open University
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- http://bit.ly/esteem-engaging-opportunit...(Research Group)
- http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/per/(Author Website)
- Depositing User
- Richard Holliman