Building an Inclusive Education R&D Ecosystem: Actionable Steps
Fostering inclusive infrastructures has emerged as a critical challenge and a strategic imperative in the rapidly evolving landscape of education research and development (R&D).
The Alliance for Learning Innovation (ALI), EducationCounsel, and InnovateEDU just released a Task Force Brief: Making the education R&D ecosystem more inclusive.
We hosted a Research and Science Policy Forum / Honorary President Edmund Gordon series session at #AERA to explore the nuances of creating R&D ecosystems that acknowledge and actively embrace variation in culture, perspective, and context.
Today’s brief provides insights into practical approaches for facilitating more equitable participation in R&D activities and ensuring that research outputs are relevant and accessible to a broad spectrum of stakeholders through knowledge mobilization and engagement.
Inclusive education R&D should prioritize diverse perspectives, authentically engage stakeholders, and empower practitioners and communities to lead R&D efforts. This approach promises to bridge the gap between research and practice, fostering greater buy-in, enabling more effective knowledge mobilization, and enhancing the societal relevance and impact of research. Participatory approaches to education R&D promise to foster stakeholder ownership and commitment, benefit from diverse perspectives, and yield more just and equitable solutions.
Recommendations include:
Prioritize knowledge mobilization and engagement to increase the impact of education R&D.
Invest in high-quality collaborative education R&D efforts centered at the state and local levels.
Leverage fellowships to add R&D capacity.
Provide R&D funding directly to practitioners and communities.
Embrace authentic R&D partnerships.
Design more inclusive Requests for Applications (RFAs).
Fund HBCUs, MSIs, and TCUs.
Diversify peer reviewers.
Make the invisible visible.
Developing, fortifying, and maintaining a more inclusive R&D environment in education requires ongoing dedication.
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