Educational Partnerships: Moving From Visions to Realities, 2(10)
Douglas R. Franks
dougf@mail.unipissing.ca
Assistant Professor
Mary Ross Hookey
maryh@mail.unipissing.ca
Associate Professor
Helen G. Langford
helenl@mail.unipissing.ca
Assistant Professor and Chair
Primary/Junior Division (on leave, Fall, 1998)
Faculty of Education
Nipissing University
North Bay, Ontario, Canada
Abstract
Three guest editors of articles addressing the theme "Educational Partnerships: Moving from Visions to Realities" introduce a series of theme articles. The series had its origin in a symposium on educational partnerships held at Nipissing University early in 1997.
Educational partnerships have been widely touted as a better way to work within tight budgets to accomplish complex educational goals. Staff and faculty in school systems, colleges, educational associations, community agencies and universities have been heavily involved in investigating the implications of educational partnerships both nationally and internationally. Some of this work has already been collated in theme issues and examined from the perspectives of school reform (Theory into Practice, 1996) and professionalism (Teacher Education Quarterly, 1997). The 1998 IJELL theme series, "Educational Partnerships: Moving from Visions to Realities," provides a forum for examining partnerships from the perspective of educational leadership.
This series evolved as a result of a symposium on educational partnerships that we organized at Nipissing University early in 1997. The symposium included three types of presentations:
- papers that described and analyzed current partnership projects;
- papers that critiqued the notion of partnerships itself; and,
- a symposium response that compared the themes in the symposium papers with the current literature on partnerships.
Based on our experience in the symposium, we felt that the general topic of partnerships deserved a wider forum for discussion and IJELL has agreed to provide this context. Throughout this 1998 series, contributing authors will address a variety of issues that have emerged and are continuing to emerge as concerns and accomplishments in educational partnerships. In the call for submissions, we asked the authors to describe partnership projects and explain what they have learned. Given the focus of this journal, we anticipate that these papers will stimulate reflective commentary on partnerships as forms of, and sites for educational leadership. As guest editors, our search is for articles and dialogue that provide us with those "high moments capable of inspiring us" (Perrone, 1989, p. 202). As readers, you are invited to contribute to the dialogue by submitting comments in the Talk Back Forum on the web site.
For our closing response to this theme series, please see Educational Partnerships: 'What's the News?', 3(20).
References
Perrone, V. (1989). Making connections: School and college collaboration. In Working Papers: Reflections on teachers, schools and communities. (pp. 192-202). New York: Teachers College Press.
Editors' Note
Douglas R. Franks is Assistant Professor, Faculty of
Education,
Nipissing University, and past-Chair of the Intermediate/Senior
Division of
the pre-service teacher education program. His interests
include (1)
curriculum issues, with a particular focus on humanistic and
critical
perspectives, and (2) mathematics education, with a particular
focus on
the place of constructivism, and on beliefs about mathematics
and their
influence on teaching and learning.
Mary Ross Hookey is Associate Professor, Faculty of
Education,
Nipissing University. Her research interests include
professional
negotiation, collaboration and curriculum development and their
intersection
with arts and general education. Mary serves on the Editorial
Boards of
Networks: An Electronic Journal of Teacher Research, the Ontario
Action
Researcher and The Journal of Music Teacher Education.
Helen G. Langford is Assistant Professor, Faculty of
Education,
Nipissing University, and Chair (on leave in fall term 1998) of
the
Primary/Junior Division of the pre-service teacher education
program.
Her interests are in (1) literacy development, especially
literacy practices
and their influence on teaching and learning, and (2) curriculum
development
and implementation.
IEJLL - Educational Partnerships Theme Series
External Reviewers
(In addition to the usual members of the IEJLL Editorial Team)
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