Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Dedication

• The Supervisory Experience: Culture in Action
  Susan Danby

Section 1: Leadership and Educational Futures

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

Section 2: Culture

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

Section 3: Gender, Ethics and Inclusion

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

Section 4: Language Acquisition

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

Reviews

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