Ricerca e professionalità educativa. Risorse e strumenti

The relationship between theory and practice and, therefore, the links between universities and services, researchers and educational professionals have been always at the heart of historical attention in educational studies. It could be argued that research has a significant and original impact in this dyadic relationship. Specifically empirical research, by its nature, is deeply involved in theory but, at the same time, it cannot exist without a constitutive relationship with contexts and real world that can be defined as the practice. It highlights that empirical research could be a virtuous point of view to reconcile the relation between theory and practice, universities and services, researchers and educational professionals. Nevertheless, this circularity and this synergy rarely become true.\r\nThose engaged in empirical research have to rethink how to share, communicate and teach research methodology. The text aims to interpret these instances and offer strategies to facilitate a meeting between theory and practice, between researchers and practitioners, university and professional contexts in a perspective of real cooperation and partnership.