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Home > Projects > Meta  Meta Project The Meta Project seeks to learn from projects that have challenged this status quo projects that have forged new ways of organizing the relationship between research and practice so that they work together to foster improved teaching and student outcomes. These projects have found ways of working in the face of formidable institutional barriers, and in so doing have much to teach the field both about the nature of these barriers and pathways toward addressing them. The Meta Project has two strategies for learning from these innovative R&D efforts. First, we identified mature R&D efforts with a proven track record of success and studied the nature of their work retrospectively. Second, we have followed the birth and early development of two ongoing MacArthur Foundation sponsored projects as they have unfolded. While the retrospective cases help us understand the nature of the work and its challenges over the life course of a project, the on-going MacArthur projects provide the opportunity to study strategic decisions and their consequences in more detail than is possible in a historical study. The Meta-Project contributes to the Network’s goal of developing a stronger R&D enterprise by uncovering and documenting the strategies used in innovative and effective approaches to organizing R&D. We expect to contribute to the development of future efforts. By articulating the mechanisms by which these projects contribute to improvement, we expect to build on and extend conceptual understandings of the relationship between research and practice;knowledge that can inform the design of an infrastructure to support effective R&D. The Network will also be able to draw on findings from the Meta-Project to frame recommendations for research and funding policy.
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