Overview

“When educational research is driven by curiosity about the ever-changing, always normative, and often unnoticed seedbed of everyday cultural experience and aspiration, then it is above all a discourse of cultural optimism. The point of research is to discover things. The point of educational research is to change the social world by discovering better understanding of its qualities.”

Peter Freebody

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Dedication

1. The Supervisory Experience: Culture in Action
   Susan Danby

1. Disengaging Leadership: Educational Administration and Management as a Field of Scientific Knowledge
   Richard Niesche
2. Globalization and the Future(s) of Vietnamese Education
   Pham Thi Hong Thanh

1. Critical Multiculturat Education: Beyond the Constraints of Policy
   Sabrina Hambel
2. Imagined Australians in a Culturally Diverse Community
   Margot Ford
3. (Re)constructions of Whiteness in Education
   Sabrina Hambel

1. Towards Improving Educational Opportunities of Females in Papua New Guinea: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers
   Velepat Tuaru
2. Ethical Issues for Researchers: Interviewing Victims of Trauma
   Lynne Baker
3. At-risk Boys' Perceptions of Masculinities and Resilience
   Julia Tilling
4. Inclusive Small Group Practices and the Effects on Teacher Pedagogy
   Julie Yarnanashi

1. The Gaps Between the Syllabus and the Classroom: Critical Analysis of Queensland Japanese Syllabus
   Yuko Yarnada
2. Student Motivation in Learning English as a Foreign Language in an Indonesian Context
   Nihta Liando, Karen Moni, Richard Baldauf