Abstract
The cooperation between research and practice is a constitutive element of Design-based Research (DBR). Despite its importance, the process and the challenges of cooperation between these fields are not well studied to date. This paper aims to establish a better understanding of how cooperation among researchers and practitioners can be managed and how cooperation is related to the design and implementation of innovations. For this purpose, we draw on a DBR project as an example, wherein the European model of validation was adapted to the field of geriatric care in Germany. We discuss insights into objectives, abilities, attitudes and restrictions of the cooperating parties in this example DBR project. We demonstrate how cooperation can help to overcome some of the obstacles in the process of developing innovation in the field. However, we additionally critically examine how cooperation between research and practice can be managed and ignite innovation that over time may have a transformative effect on practices often taken for granted in education. On this basis, we conclude that cooperation promotes mutual learning by both researchers and practitioners.
Highlights
A general concern – both in practice and in research – is how to increase the acceptance of innovation
This paper focuses on the interrelation between cooperation of partners from research and practice as well as the development and implementation of innovations drawing exemplarily on the Design-based Research (DBR) project KomBiA, that focuses on competence validation in German geriatric care
The DBR project analysed in this paper revealed how the cooperating partners changed as a prerequisite to make the newly developed prototype work
Summary
A general concern – both in practice and in research – is how to increase the acceptance of innovation. This paper focuses on the interrelation between cooperation of partners from research and practice as well as the development and implementation of innovations drawing exemplarily on the DBR project KomBiA, that focuses on competence validation in German geriatric care (see section 3). There was previously strong resistance against the innovation of validation arrangements in the field of geriatric nursing, making the case for developing and implementing innovation under unfavourable conditions utilizing the potential of the DBR approach. This cooperative DBR project involved the researchers on the one hand, and the practitioners on the other hand. We will describe the project briefly to provide relevant information on its proceedings and to focus on our experience with cooperation in the project
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