| Abstrakt: |
As Flyvbjerg et al. (2012) explained, critique is a core mechanism within democracy to keep institutions "effective and improving" (p. 294). People must be critical of the structures they live in because the policies and practices designed and implemented within those structures represent their/our values. If outcomes related to those policies misalign with the values of those who live and work by them, something should change. In this article, I analyze the alignment between values and practices as they relate to conceptualizing the "influence" of educational researchers. Do conceptualizations of influence that can be connected to how social media influencers are labeled as such align with the values educational researchers believe are important to embody to be considered influential? Moreover, do the actions incentivized by this conceptualization of influence align with outcomes educational researchers believe are influential? If the answer to either of these questions is no, I argue for a re-conceptualization of influence to better align the values and practices of educational researchers with the goals and outcomes they seek to obtain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
