...Shuangye Chen; Xiaolei Zhang; Haiyan Qian Purpose This study applies the social identity complexity perspective and the concept of identity work to explore how pracademics in Shanghai of China, formally named as the Keyanyuan (KYY) in Chinese, construct their professional identities through...

... that pracademics who simultaneously straddle the worlds of practice, policy, and academia embody new possibilities as boundary spanners in the field of education for knowledge mobilization, networks, community membership, and responding to systemic challenges. However, being a pracademic requires the constant...

...Sharon Linda Friesen Purpose This paper is a thinking piece that examines, from the viewpoint of a Canadian pracademic, working through two definitions of pracademic, a collaborative relationship between academics and practitioners and a person engaged as a practitioner and researcher. Two aspects...

...John Paul Mynott; Michaela Zimmatore Purpose Productive friction (Ward et al., 2011) can exist as pracademics cross between boundaries of their different identities. Through an exploration of the self-perception of two collaborating pracademics, this paper will consider...

...-structured interviews with a total of eighteen pracademics identified for their work in teacher education. Participants included ten professional development (PD) specialists, three university supervisors and five specialists working at the Ministry of Education in Qatar. Findings Narrative analysis...

..., pracademics). Originality/value Through a relational approach, this work breaks down the boundaries of theory and practice to offer a new way of thinking about knowledge claims. The new approach is consistent with the intent of bridging theory and practice without the need to assume them to be separate...