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Kelemen, ML and Vo, LC (2017) Collaborating across the researcher-practitioner divide: introducing John Dewey's democratic experimentalism. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 30 (6). pp. 858-871. ISSN 0953-4814
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Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | rigour, relevance, knowledge co-production, Democratic experimentalism, Dewey’s pragmatism, researcher-practitioner divide |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Keele Management School |
Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 10 May 2017 08:02 |
Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2018 10:16 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/3359 |