It should be something that teachers and policy-makers look for, read about, argue over, reflect on, and then either reject and forget, or file away in their memory to adapt and adopt later. But here is the rub - most research writing is not memorable and much of it is not easy to get hold of. A model of the relationship between educational research and the practice of teaching and formation of education policy Educational research uses and contributes to methodologies of the other social sciences. Reports of educational research contribute to professional discourse and vice versa. Reports of professional experience contribute to professional discourse.
Professional discourse provides ideas that add to craft knowledge.
Professional experience provides knowledge of what has worked. Subject knowledge is transmuted through craft knowledge into a teachable form. Craft knowledge of teaching determines the practice of teaching. Craft' knowledge of management and politics determines policy formation. Libraries store and inform educational research.