The authors explore the role of educational research in uncertain, risky times. Theoretical arguments and empirical examples of the in-situ development of research practices in Australia, Canada, Finland and Norway are provided, arising from reflection upon and dialogue about researching practices with particular groups.
Researching Practices Across and Within Diverse Educational Sites explores the role of educational research in uncertain, risky times. Researching practices and their consequences transpire unpredictably, depending on how we set about to understand these practices. The authors consider the unknowns in research action, and what promises researchers can keep to their communities as they embark on research action together.
The authors examine how researching practices come to be constituted within and across cultural sites through consideration of the onto-epistemological bases of research action, broadly understood as doing, through knowing and being. Theoretical arguments and empirical examples of the in-situ development of research practices in Australia, Canada, Finland and Norway are provided, arising from reflection upon and dialogue about researching practices with particular groups. Within each chapter, the authors reflect on how knowledge production is influenced by how they go about their researching practices and who or what they regard as knowledge holders. These examples enable readers to reflect on their researching practices in different educational settings.
Researching Practices Across and Within Diverse Educational Sites explores the role of educational research in uncertain, risky times. Researching practices and their consequences transpire unpredictably, depending on how we set about to understand these practices. The authors consider the unknowns in research action, and what promises researchers can keep to their communities as they embark on research action together. The authors examine how researching practices come to be constituted within and across cultural sites through consideration of the onto-epistemological bases of research action, broadly understood as doing, through knowing and being. Theoretical arguments and empirical examples of the in-situ development of research practices in Australia, Canada, Finland and Norway are provided, arising from reflection upon and dialogue about researching practices with particular groups. Within each chapter, the authors reflect on how knowledge production is influenced by how they go about their researching practices and who or what they regard as knowledge holders. These examples enable readers to reflect on their researching practices in different educational settings.
Foreword; Stephen Kemmis
Chapter
1. Onto-Epistemological and Axiological Considerations for
Researching Practices; Susan Whatman, Jane Wilkinson, Mervi Kaukko, Gųrill
Warvik Vedeler, Levon Ellen Blue, and Kristin Elaine Reimer
Chapter
2. Challenging Ontological and Epistemological Assumptions of
Researching: A Practice Architectures Approach; Mervi Kaukko and Jane
Wilkinson
Chapter
3. A Site Ontological Approach to Researching with Children and Youth
of Refugee Background; Mervi Kaukko and Jane Wilkinson
Chapter
4. Facilitating Dialogues of Discovery; Gųrill Warvik Vedeler and
Kristin Elaine Reimer
Chapter
5. Indigenist Research Practices to Support Indigenous Pre-Service
Teaching Praxis; Susan Whatman and Juliana McLaughlin
Chapter
6. Trust Settlement Agreement Practices in First Nation Communities;
Levon Ellen Blue
Chapter
7. Indigenous Small Business Owners: Exploring the Practice of
Support; Levon Ellen Blue, Doug Hunt, Kerry Bodle, Lorelle Frazer, Mark
Brimble, and Scott Weaven
Chapter
8. Concluding Thoughts on Methodological Resources and Research
Challenges in Diverse Educational Sites; Susan Whatman, Jane Wilkinson, Mervi
Kaukko, Gųrill Warvik Vedeler, Levon Ellen Blue, and Kristin Elaine Reimer
Susan Whatman is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Professional Studies and the Doctor of Education HDR program director at Griffith University, Australia.
Jane Wilkinson is Professor in Educational Leadership, Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.
Mervi Kaukko is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Culture, Tampere University, Finland.
Gųrill Warvik Vedeler is Head of Research at the Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education, Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.
Levon Ellen Blue is a Senior Lecturer at the Carumba Institute at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Kristin Elaine Reimer is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.
