Research and professional development collaborations among university faculty and education practitioners.

In this article, I describe some of the issues encountered in the development of a teaching, research, and professional development collaboration between faculty in a large research university and K-12 teachers. Faculty and teachers collaborate in school reform through art education in the Transforming Education through the Arts Challenge (hereinafter, Challenge) (National Arts Education Consortium 1996).

The Challenge is a privately funded project that is unique among large-scale art education reform efforts in that it encourages local design of school reform through ...

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