ABSTRACT

Having considered the diverse cases of each of the SUPER partners, we are left with the task of giving an account of the partnership as a whole. In our efforts to understand what school-university research partnerships could and should be like, we are conscious that this SUPER partnership is just one case. It represents our best efforts as yet to form an effective research partnership but, like the cases we have described of the individual institutions involved in it, it is one particular case, shaped by the concerns and preconceptions of the people involved and by the practical and financial constraints of its historical context. Before going on to consider what we have learned about school-university research partnerships from our experience, we must first try to understand and articulate what has happened in this particular case.