Linor L. Hadar is Associate Professor, Department of Learning and Instructional Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel. Hadar Baharav is the Director of the Center for the Study of Pedagogy - Research-Practice Partnerships, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
“This book advances the field’s understanding of how context matters for the processes and outcomes of education research-practice partnerships. This comprehensive book allows readers to explore how conditions in the Israeli educational context compare to the existing RPP research.” Laura Wentwaorth, Director of Research-Practice Partnership Program, California Education Partners “This book offers readers a penetrating, detailed and refreshingly honest look at the messy and contradictory world of research-practice partnerships. The authors, who include teachers, teacher educators and researchers, unveil the variety of interests, motivations, roles, identities, and perspectives of the partners in an Israeli teacher research partnership. It invites the field to take seriously the contexts in which we seek to construct partnerships – organizational, cultural, systemic, national contexts -- that make those partnerships so challenging and so necessary.” Adam Lefstein, Morton L. Mandel Director, Seymour Fox School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem