Dwelling in Liminal Spaces: Twin Moments of the Same Reality

Autor/in	Friesen, Sharon Linda
Titel	Dwelling in Liminal Spaces: Twin Moments of the Same Reality
Quelle	In: Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 7 (2022) 1, S.71-82 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Friesen, Sharon Linda)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2056-9548
DOI	10.1108/JPCC-11-2020-0095
Schlagwörter	Communities of Practice; Theory Practice Relationship; Social Change; Cooperation; Higher Education; Educational Change; Professional Development; Praxis; Social Networks; Foreign Countries; Partnerships in Education; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Sozialer Wandel; Co-operation; Kooperation; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsreform; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Ausland; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Kanada
Abstract	Purpose: This paper is a thinking piece that examines, from the viewpoint of a Canadian pracademic, working through two definitions of pracademic, a collaborative relationship between academics and practitioners and a person engaged as a practitioner and researcher. Two aspects of a pracademics scholarship is discussed, wide awakeness and praxis. The purpose of the paper is to make the case that it is pracademics who are well suited and attuned to questioning, challenging, and disrupting the ordinariness of the everyday, to envision new possibilities, and who take responsibility for mobilizing the educational community to undertake meaningful social change within an education system. A case is provided to illustrate wide-awakeness and praxis in practice. A case is provide to illustrate how wide-awakeness and praxis present themselves in practice. Design/methodology/approach: This paper considers the work of pracademics from Galileo Educational Network, located within a research-intensive university, who research and lead design-based professional learning. Drawing upon a design-based approach to guide design-based professional learning and design-based research, I highlight the ways in which wide-awakeness and praxis work themselves out in practice. Findings: Drawing upon the two aspects of wide-awakeness and praxis, creates a liminal space for pracademics to engage with practitioners to undertake stubborn and persistent problems of practice to create important educational improvements. A key to engaging in transformational change through collaborative professionalism is to engage in sustained design-based professional learning led by pracademics. Originality/value: This thinking piece offers the perspective of one Canadian pracademic who shows how pracademics are uniquely positioned to take on the work of transformation, agency, and social change. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01