Models for Applying Scholarship to Practice

Maureen E. Wilson, Amy S. Hirschy
2017 New Directions for Higher Education  
A goal of the scholarship of practice is to improve professional practice by using empirical research as the groundwork for developing practice and policy (Braxton, 2014) . Research should contribute to an understanding of the challenges practitioners face. The purpose of this chapter is to review process models for translating scholarship into practice and offer suggestions for choosing among those models. Administrators can apply these theories and models across disciplines. We conclude with
more » ... uggestions for interpreting and acting on research and detail implications for administrative practice. Kimball (2012, 2013) reviewed and critiqued theory-to-practice models and then presented a new model for integrating scholarship, context, and reflection. As pictured in Figure 3 . Model of Theory-to-Practice Translation
doi:10.1002/he.20232 fatcat:jfpk7mw7vrfxhfzfmhggvqv6lq