This ground-breaking book comprehensively addresses an area of major and sustained concern: how to improve the use of research evidence and enhance educators’ research engagement as a route to the improvement of educational practice.

Acknowledgements About the editors About the contributors (Introductory Chapter - 1) – Joining Worlds: Knowledge Mobilization and Evidence-Informed Practice (Chapter 2) –Educational Brokerage and Knowledge Mobilization in the United States: Who, What, Why, How? (Chapter 3) - Push and Pull on Twitter: How School Leaders Use Twitter for Knowledge Brokering (Chapter 4) – Evidence for the Frontline: More Questions than Answers (Chapter 5) - Fostering Improved Connections Between Research, Policy and Practice: The Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research (Chapter 6) - Avenues of Influence: An Exploration of School-Based Practitioners as Knowledge Brokers and Mobilizers (Chapter 7) – Knowledge Brokering: "Not a Place for Novices of New Conscripts" (Chapter 8) - What is the Research Brokerage Role that can be Played by Social Relationships? Learning from a Quantitative Study from England (Chapter 9) - Building Student Teachers’ Capacity to Engage with Research (Chapter 10) - Cooperation between Research, Practice and Administration as a Knowledge Transfer Strategy? Insights from a School Development Project involving Schools in Socially Disadvantaged Areas in Germany (Chapter 11) - The Role of Brokers in Sustaining Partnership Work in Education (Chapter 12) - Using frameworks and models to support knowledge mobilization (Culminating/Moving Forward - Chapter 13) – Conclusion: The Future of Research Use?