Navigating the Education Research Maze: Contextual, Conceptual, Methodological and Transformational Challenges and Opportunities for Researchers

ISBN-13: 9783319819808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 289 str.

Dolene Rossi; Francis Gacenga; Patrick Alan Danaher

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Navigating, Negotiating and Nullifying Research Mazes: Successful Strategies for Mobilising Contextual, Conceptual, Methodological and Transformational Challenges and Opportunities; Patrick Alan Danaher, Dolene Rossi and Francis Gacenga.- PART I: NAVIGATING THE POLITICS, ETHICS, PHILOSOPHIES AND THEORIES OF EDUCATION.- Part I Introduction; Patrick Alan Danaher.- Chapter 2. Researchers Navigating the Maze: At What Price?; Cecily Jensen-Clayton and Atholl Murray.- Chapter 3. “Have You Been Non-Compliant?”: Dilemmas of Decision-Making for School Principals and Education Researchers.- Karen Trimmer.- Chapter 4. Navigating the Terrain of Methodological Uncertainties to New Space Research.- Yvonne Salton.- Chapter 5. Navigating the Scholarship of Integration from a Maze; Jay Somasundaram, Prue Howard and Rob H. Reed,- PART II: NAVIGATING MAZES IN AND WITH SPECIFIC RESEARCH METHODS.- Part II Introduction; Francis Gacenga.- Chapter 6. Practice-Led Research: Creating, Embodying and Shifting Understandings of Research; Bernadette Meenach.- Chapter 7. Investigating Creative Arts Practices in Australian Home Education through Design-Based Research: Entering the Research Maze with the Spirit of Adventure; Katie Burke.- Chapter 8. Meandering in the Maze of Mixed Methods: Navigating Stratefies of a Researcher into the influence of the Mass Media on Children's Science Understandings; Jennifer Donovan.- Chapter 9. Navigating, Negotiationg and Nullifying Contradictions in the Research around School Curriculum Change; Wendy Fasso, Bruce Knight and Ken Purnell.- Chapter 10. Research as a 'Quest' through a 'Maze' of Representations: Understanding Metaphorical and Image Constructions in Research a Research Community; Rennie Naidoo.- PART III: NAVIGATING MAZES IN AND WITH SPECIFIC RESEARCH TASKS AND TECHNOLOGIES.- Part III Introduction; Dolene Rossi.- Chapter 11. Many Paths to Discovery: The Increasingly Complex Literature Maze; Lindy Ramsay and Moira Williamson.- Chapter 12. Food for Thought: Managing Secondary Data for Research; Nargis Pervin, Rohit Nishant and Philip J. Kitchen.- Chapter 13. The Compass, Navigation and the Journey: The Role of eResearch in Navigating the Research Maze; Francis Gacenga.- Chapter 14. Collaborative Research: A Partnership Which Seizes Opportunities, Navigates Challenges and Constructs New Knowledge and Shared Understandings; Dolene Rossi.- Chapter 15. Working Beyond the Research Maze; Cecily Jensen-Clayton and Atholl Murray.- Afterword. 

O autorze

Dolene Rossi is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Central Queensland University, Australia. Dolene is currently a member of the Central Queensland Hospital Health Service ethics committee.

Francis Gacenga is the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation eResearch Analyst at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

Patrick Alan Danaher is Associate Dean (Research and Research Training) in the Faculty of Education, Law and Arts at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He is also currently Adjunct Professor in the School of Education and the Arts in the Higher Education Division at Central Queensland, Australia.