Evidence indicates that EA professors attach different emphases to each side of the
continuum (Gunter and Ribbins, 2002). In research universities, nonetheless, where
many productive professors (in terms of number of publications) work, the pendulum
is skewed towards research programs and scholarly writing (Baker et al., 2007),
although an extensive collaboration with practitioners is also observed
(Tschannen-Moran et al., 2000). Thirty years after Campbell and Newell (1973)
pointed to the small number of researchers who paid attention to scholarly work, the
field is still bifurcated by professors who concentrate on practice and those who devote
much of their time and efforts to promote the scholarly work of the field.