Navigating the Education Research Maze: Contextual, Conceptual, Methodological and Transformational Challenges and Opportunities for Researchers (Hardcover, 2016)

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.