Abstract

Research-Practice Partnerships (RPPs) offer a model for mutually beneficial learning and capacity building across disciplines and contexts. Bringing together professionals with different skills and areas of expertise can foster innovation with the goal of creating equitable transformation and improvement. Within these partnerships, individuals often need to approach the work with a different set of skills and mindsets than they might otherwise draw from in their regular roles as researchers, teachers, administrators, or policymakers. Several resources have examined the kind of personal capacities needed for working collaboratively across disciplines and considered the complex ways in which context, systems, and structures external to and within our partnerships shape the work, such as the 2023 Towards a Field for Collaborative Education Research: Developing a Framework for the Complexity of Necessary Learning framework and the 2022 Brokering in Education RPPs Handbook. Frameworks such as these can be incredibly helpful in supporting RPP participants in understanding, assessing, promoting, and furthering their partnership work.

Publication Date

2025

Document Type

Article

Topic

Educator Learning & Leadership

Program

Faculty Engagement

Language

English (en)

Publication Citation

Elkana, M. & May, V. (2025). Using Appreciative Inquiry to Strengthen RPPs. NNERPP Extra, 7(3), 15-22. https://doi.org/10.25613/35H9-DM21

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