What’s the use of educational research? Six stories reflecting on research use with communities

Sophie Rudolph, Eve Mayes, Tebeje Molla, Sophie Chiew, Natasha Abhayawickrama, Netta Maiava, Danielle Villafana, Rosie Welch, Ben Liu, Rachel Couper, Iris Duhn, Al Fricker, Archie Thomas, Menasik Dewanyang, Hayley McQuire, Sophie Hashimoto-Benfatto, Michelle Spisbah, Zach Smith, Tarneen Onus-Browne, Emma Rowe, Joel Windle, Fazal Rizvi
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The question of how education research can be ‘useful’ is an enduring and challenging one. In recent years, this question has been approached by universities through a widespread ‘impact’ agenda. In this article, we explore the tensions between usefulness and impact and present six stories that reflect on research use with communities. These stories engage issues of the risk of usefulness, the time that is needed to work collaboratively for research usefulness, whether theories developed in universities can be useful to communities for understanding the problems they face, who has the power to steer research to serve their purposes, and how community collective action can enhance the usefulness of research. The article concludes with a section that reflects on the importance of continuing to engage with the debates about research use in often highly commercially oriented university environments. This article brings together diverse voices that wrestle with the politics of research use beyond the neat, linear narratives of change that impact agendas tend to portray. These illustrations of the ethical dilemmas encountered through navigating research use with communities contribute to an ongoing conversation about refusing capitalist and colonialist logics of research extraction while working within institutions often driven by such logics.

教育研究有什么用?反映社区使用研究成果的六个故事
教育研究如何才能 "有用",这是一个具有挑战性的持久问题。近年来,大学通过广泛的 "影响 "议程来解决这一问题。在本文中,我们探讨了有用性与影响力之间的矛盾,并介绍了六个反映社区使用研究成果的故事。这些故事涉及以下问题:有用性的风险、为实现研究有用性而开展合作所需的时间、大学开发的理论是否有助于社区了解其所面临的问题、谁有权引导研究为其目的服务,以及社区集体行动如何提高研究的有用性。文章最后用一个章节反思了在通常高度商业化的大学环境中继续参与有关研究用途的辩论的重要性。这篇文章汇集了不同的声音,这些声音与研究使用的政治性进行了斗争,超越了影响议程倾向于描绘的整齐、线性的变革叙事。这些例子说明了在与社区共同利用研究成果的过程中遇到的道德困境,有助于我们继续讨论如何拒绝资本主义和殖民主义的研究成果提取逻辑,同时在往往受这种逻辑驱动的机构中开展工作。
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