eprintid: 10068373 rev_number: 24 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/06/83/73 datestamp: 2019-02-21 14:40:37 lastmod: 2021-10-28 22:20:48 status_changed: 2019-02-21 14:40:37 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Moss, G title: Knowledge, education and research: Making common cause across communities of practice ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J82 keywords: knowledge, research, education, policy, change note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: This article considers how knowledge, education and research interact as the institutional structures that support them change. Many efforts at large‐scale education reform depend upon the proposition that what counts as useful knowledge can be easily defined, without reference to the specific contexts in which that knowledge will be set to work. Yet 'useful knowledge' as it appears to policymakers does not always translate into 'useful knowledge' from the perspective of practitioners. Distance and context matter. Based on studies of the development of literacy policy in England under successive governments, the paper assesses the dislocations and divisions of labour that characterise the contemporary knowledge landscape and asks how the research community can continue to act for the common good in an increasingly crowded and contested education field. date: 2016-12 date_type: published official_url: https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3249 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1630419 doi: 10.1002/berj.3249 lyricists_name: Moss, Penelope Jane lyricists_id: PJGMO52 actors_name: Allington-Smith, Dominic actors_id: DAALL44 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: British Educational Research Journal volume: 42 number: 6 pagerange: 927-944 issn: 0141-1926 citation: Moss, G; (2016) Knowledge, education and research: Making common cause across communities of practice. British Educational Research Journal , 42 (6) pp. 927-944. 10.1002/berj.3249 <https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3249>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10068373/1/Moss_BERA%202015%20presidential%20address%20Moss%20final%20for%20pub%20Full%20finalRR.pdf