Table of contents - Special Issue: Pracademia: Exploring the possibilities, power and politics of boundary-spanners straddling the worlds of practice and scholarship
Guest Editors: Trista Hollweck, Deborah M. Netolicky, Paul Campbell
Defining and exploring pracademia: identity, community, and engagement
Trista Hollweck, Deborah M. Netolicky, Paul CampbellThe aim of this paper is to define pracademia and conceptualise it in relation to educational contexts. This paper contributes to and stimulates a continuing and evolving…
Education focused pracademics on twitter: building democratic fora
Steven Kolber, Keith HeggartThis paper explores the features of pracademic practice within online spaces where pracademics, academics and teachers interact.
Pracademic productive friction: boundary crossing and pressure points
John Paul Mynott, Michaela ZimmatoreProductive friction (Ward et al., 2011) can exist as pracademics cross between boundaries of their different identities. Through an exploration of the self-perception of two…
Pracademia: an answer but not the answer to an enduring question
Scott EacottThe pracademia movement is gaining increasing traction in education, particularly in educational leadership. Offered as a means to bridge practice and academia, questions remain…
Dwelling in liminal spaces: twin moments of the same reality
Sharon Linda FriesenThis paper is a thinking piece that examines, from the viewpoint of a Canadian pracademic, working through two definitions of pracademic, a collaborative relationship between…
Exploring perceptions of pracademics in an Arab context
Youmen Chaaban, Abdellatif Sellami, Rania Sawalhi, Marwa ElkhoulyThis study explored the perceptions of Arab professionals toward pracademia and the ways they position themselves as professionals in this field.
ISSN:
2056-9548Online date, start – end:
2016Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Martin Scanlan