The central position of education in knowledge mobilization: insights from network analyses of spatial reasoning researc
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The central position of education in knowledge mobilization: insights from network analyses of spatial reasoning research across disciplines Geoff Woolcott1 · Dan Chamberlain2 · Zachary Hawes3 · Michelle Drefs4 · Catherine D. Bruce5 · Brent Davis4 · Krista Francis4 · David Hallowell6 · Lynn McGarvey7 · Joan Moss8 · Joanne Mulligan9 · Yukari Okamoto6 · Nathalie Sinclair10 · Walter Whiteley11 Received: 29 March 2020 © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2020
Abstract Knowledge mobilization is becoming increasingly important for research collaborations, but few methodologies support increased knowledge sharing. This study provides insights, using a reflective narrative, into a transdisciplinary knowledge-sharing investigation of the connectivity of educational research to that of other disciplines. As an exemplar for educational research, the study evaluated the use of spatial search terms from mathematics education using: 1) an initial descriptive statistical analysis combined with bi modal network analysis of highly cited articles; and, 2) a second more comprehensive unimodal analysis using bibliographic coupling networks. This iterative analytical process provided a major if surprising insight—although Education is not particularly well connected bidirectionally to many subject areas, it appears to act as a distribution centre for knowledge mobilization, providing a central hub for gathering and analysing knowledge from across disciplines in order to generate the complex system of information that underpins society. Keywords Educational research hubs · Social network analysis · Transdisciplinary studies · Spatial reasoning · Mathematics education
Introduction Knowledge mobilization strategies are becoming increasingly sought after in providing a research knowledge synthesis that supports and sustains an innovative, resilient, and diverse society in a multitude of contexts (Fenwick and Farrell 2012; Naidorf 2014). Effective knowledge mobilization is an emergent process, arising from the interactions within
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s1119 2-020-03692-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Geoff Woolcott [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
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research collaborations, that serves to make knowledge ready for service or action rather than slowly diffusing through traditional dissemination processes (Naidorf 2014; SSHRC 2009). The concept of knowledge mobilization embraces, or has synergy with, a number of similar or underlying concepts, including knowledge transfer, knowledge exchange, knowledge diffusion, and knowledge translation (Graham et al. 2006), but in simple terms describes knowledge sharing, how knowledge moves within and beyond a community of peers (Nguyen et al. 2017). Despite the growing interest in knowledge mobilization, in practice it remains complex and uncertain, while the roles of knowledge m
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