Academic Society as a ‘place’ to Connect Educational Researchers and Practitioners: In the case of academic society relate to social studies education

This study examines on the role and meaning of academic societies as a “place” for connecting researchers and practitioners. We picked up two academic societies related to social studies education and from the changes in the way they handle their research frameworks. Throughout examining the previous literatures related to these two societies, there are two major findings. The first is that research frameworks could provide the standards for deciding good/bad research. Some frameworks can establish common standards for researchers and practitioners, while others could be designed to clarify the different roles of researchers andpractitioners. Secondly, there are research frameworks serve as indicators for organizing existing research works. This can be an administrative and intuitive framework, or it can be a topical or thematic framework in the context of academic trends.