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Top-Down and Outside-In: breaking boundaries between research, theory and practice.

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Gregson, Daniel, Gregson, Margaret and Spedding, Patricia (2019) Top-Down and Outside-In: breaking boundaries between research, theory and practice. Journal of Management Policy and Practice, 20 (3). pp. 36-52. ISSN 1913-8067

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Abstract

This paper challenges divisions which have been set up between practice, research and theory in relation to the discipline of Education. It questions the epistemic positions upon which positivist metanarratives underpinning these divisions are founded. These include the separation of practice from research and theory and the creation of the notion of a vocational and academic divide. We provide insights into how a University-supported, practitioner-research programme (PRP), which draws upon Dewey’s pragmatic epistemology, is impacting upon the improvement of educational practice, processes of educational inquiry and the development of theory in the Further Adult and Vocational Education (FAVE) sector in England.

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Depositing User: Maggie Gregson

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Item ID: 11010
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.33423/jmpp.v20i3.2229
ISSN: 1913-8067
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/11010
Official URL: https://articlegateway.com/index.php/JMPP/article/...

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ORCID for Daniel Gregson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5980-2401
ORCID for Margaret Gregson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2195-3738
ORCID for Patricia Spedding: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6089-6046

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Date Deposited: 06 Aug 2019 13:49
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2020 10:46

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