Guest editorialPracademia: exploring the possibilities, power and politics of boundary-spanners straddling the worlds of practice and scholarship

Abstract

Pracademia and pracademicsThis Special Issue (SI) of the Journal of Professional Capital and Community (JPCC) "Pracademia: Exploring the possibilities, power and politics of boundary-spanners straddling the worlds of practice and scholarship" builds on a conversation that began in a symposium presentation at the 2020 International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) in Morocco. We (Trista, Deb and Paul), along with our colleagues Leyton Schnellert, University of British Columbia, Canada and Danette Parsley, Chief Executive Officer at Marzano Research, USA, were interested in whether the terms pracademia and pracademic were resonating for others in the ways that they were for us. The symposium was called "Pracademics: Exploring the tensions and opportunities of boundary-spanners who straddle the worlds of academia and practice." As self-identified pracademics, or individuals operating in spaces which could be characterized as pracademia,