Navigating the education research maze : contextual, conceptual, methodological and transformational challenges and opportunities for researchers / edited by Dolene Rossi, Francis Gacenga and Patrick Alan Danaher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rossi, Dolene, editor.

Gacenga, Francis, editor.

Danaher, Patrick Alan, 1959- editor.

Series:

Palgrave studies in education research methods

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Research.

Education.

Educational sociology.

Education--Curricula.

Social sciences.

Sociology--Research.

Sociology.

Research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Research.

Physical Description:

xvii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

Summary:

"This book depicts rigorous and vigorous accounts of strategies used successfully by researchers to negotiate their way through the research maze. The metaphor of the maze evokes several different and sometimes contradictory elements of contemporary education research, including complexity, confusion, messiness, multiplicity and risk. While these are not necessarily or wholly negative attributes, it is important for researchers to be able to articulate and implement effective strategies for engaging wholeheartedly with these situations to navigate the education research maze. The book is structured around three main themes; politics, ethics, philosophies and theories of education research mazes; mazes in and with specific research methods; and mazes in and with specific research tasks and technologies. Each account develops broader lessons for enhancing the impact, quality, relevance and significance of research in other disciplines as well as education."--Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Navigating, Negotiating and Nullifying Education Research Mazes: Successful Strategies for Mobilising Contextual, Conceptual, Methodological and Transformational Challenges and Opportunities / Francis Gacenga

pt. 1 Navigating the Politics, Ethics, Philosophies and Theories of Education Research Mazes / Patrick Alan Danaher

2.Working in the Research Maze: At What Price? / Atholl Murray

3."Have You Been Non-compliant?" Dilemmas of Decision-Making for School Principals and Education Researchers / Karen Trimmer

4.Navigating the Terrain of Methodological Uncertainties to New Spaces of Research / Yvonne Salton

5.Navigating the Scholarship of Integration: Insights from a Maze / Rob H. Reed

pt. 2 Navigating Mazes in and with Specific Research Methods / Francis Gacenga

6.Practice-led Research: Creating, Embodying and Shifting My Understanding of Research / Bernadette Meenach

Note continued: 7.Investigating Creative Arts Practices in Australian Home Education Through Design-Based Research: Entering the Research Maze with the Spirit of Adventure / Katie Burke

8.Meandering in the Maze of Mixed Methods: Navigation Strategies of a Researcher into the Influence of the Mass Media on Children's Science Understandings / Jennifer Donovan

9.Navigating, Negotiating and Nullifying Contradictions in the Research Around School Curriculum Change / Ken Purnell

10.Research as a "Quest" through a "Maze" of Representations: Understanding Metaphorical and Image Constructions in a Research Community / Rennie Naidoo

pt. 3 Navigating Mazes in and with Specific Research Tasks and Technologies / Dolene Rossi

11.Many Paths to Discovery: The Increasingly Complex Literature Maze / Moira Williamson

12.Food for Thought: Managing Secondary Data for Research / Philip J. Kitchen

Note continued: 13.The Compass, Navigation and the Journey: A Role for eResearch in Navigating the Research Maze / Francis Gacenga

14.Collaborative Research: A Partnership That Seizes Opportunities, Navigates Challenges and Constructs New Knowledge and Shared Understandings / Dolene Rossi

15.Working Beyond the Research Maze / Atholl Murray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319398525

3319398520

OCLC:

950953603