Journal article
Defining and exploring pracademia: Identity, community, and engagement
Journal of Professional Capital and Community, pp.ahead-of-print
2021
Abstract
Purpose
The 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 conversation around pracademia and its relevance, role and possibilities.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper is a conceptual exploration. It draws upon existing and emerging pieces of literature, the use of metaphor as a meaning-making tool, and the positionalities of the authors, to develop the concept of pracademia.
Findings
The authors posit that pracademics who simultaneously straddle the worlds of practice, policy, and academia embody new possibilities as boundary spanners in the field of education for knowledge mobilization, networks, community membership, and responding to systemic challenges. However, being a pracademic requires the constant reconciling of the demands of multi-membership and ultimately, pracademics must establish sufficient legitimacy to be respected in two or more currently distinct worlds.
Practical implications
This paper has implications for knowledge mobilization, networks, boundary spanners, leadership, professional learning, and connecting practice, policy, and research. While the authors are in the field of education, this exploration of pracademia is relevant not only to the field of education but also to other fields in which there is a clear need to connect practice/policy with scholarship.
Originality/value
This paper provides a new definition of pracademia and argues that pracademia identifies an important yet relatively unknown space with many possibilities in the field of education.
Details
- Title
- Defining and exploring pracademia: Identity, community, and engagement
- Authors/Creators
- T. Hollweck (Author/Creator)D.M. Netolicky (Author/Creator)P. Campbell (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Journal of Professional Capital and Community, pp.ahead-of-print
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Identifiers
- 991005540133107891
- Copyright
- © 2021, Emerald Publishing Limited
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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