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Title: Between Transaction and Collaboration: Struggles for Coherence, Responsiveness, and Mutuality in a Fizzled-Out Research-Practice Partnership
Language: English
Authors: Elizabeth Zumpe (ORCID 0000-0001-8196-6293), Peter Piazza (ORCID 0009-0002-1185-1604), Katherine Ashton (ORCID 0009-0003-9638-4394)
Source: AERA Open. 2025 11(1).
Availability: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: http://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 20
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Educational Research, Partnerships in Education, Failure, College School Cooperation, Barriers
ISSN: 2332-8584
Abstract: A movement for research-practice partnerships (RPPs) in education has gained momentum, defined as long-term collaborations between researchers and practitioners involving mutually beneficial joint work. Given the history of transactional relationships, establishing a long-term collaboration poses challenges. While scholars have warned that many RPP efforts may not succeed, few studies have examined unsuccessful partnerships. Through analysis of interviews and meeting recordings, this paper traces interactions that enabled and hindered collaboration in an aspiring district-university RPP that fizzled out after one year. The study revealed three core struggles: (a) coherence struggles when working across a siloed district invited fragmented goals; (b) responsiveness struggles when reactive adaptations to emergent needs competed with a longer-term vision; and (c) mutuality struggles when funding arrangements positioned university partners as service providers rather than collaborative researchers. These struggles pulled the partnership into transactional interactions and contributed to the partnership's dissolution, posing implications about collaborative partnership development.
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Notes: https://doi.org/10.3886/E237648V1
Entry Date: 2026
Accession Number: EJ1494946
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