Practice, pedagogy and education as a discipline: Getting beyond close-to-practice research

The British Educational Research Association has promulgated ‘close-to-practice research’ that ‘focuses on issues defined by practitioners as relevant to their practice, and involves collaboration between people whose main expertise is research, practice, or both’, alongside quality criteria such as ‘the robust use of research design’ and ‘clearly defined research questions’ (Wyse et al., 2021, p. 34).