Overview

For many, the contemporary era is troubling. To find one's way in these challenging times is increasingly complex and requires new ways of thinking about academe, culture, society, methodology, ourselves. Researchers and theorists find they must transcend traditional boundaries as they attempt to account for and respond to these challenges. The papers in this collection reflect these issues as they set out to analyse, interrogate, describe, examine, 'unpack', disturb, and explain the practice of educational research and/or the educational practices under investigation.

Table of Contents

1. TROUBLING EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE AND THE EMERGENT STRUCTURE OF FEELING: An Excursus on Context
   Bob Lingard
2. THE 'TROUBLE' IS
   Victoria Carrington, Jane Mitchell, Shaun Rawolle, Agli Zavros
3. TROUBLING PRACTICE: Narrative data and analysis inside a poststructural framework
   Jan Connelly
4. INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH: Problems and posibilities
   Ann Webster-Wright
5. SEARCHING FOR THE 'RIGHT' METHODOLOGIES
   Takae Ichimoto
6. UNCOVERING CULTURAL ASSUMPTIONS: A case study of a Chinese-Australian parent with a child with a disability
   Juliet Choo, Levan Lim, Peter Renshaw, Hyun-Sook Park, Shelley Lee
7. RELOCATING SCHOOL STRUCTURES AND PRACTICES? The Japanese Language Supplementary School of Queensland
   Ayako Suzuki
8. DE-CENTRING WOMEN'S ISSUES: Pedagogical Implications of 'becoming women' entrepreneurs
   Radha lver
9. CHINESE BASIC EDUCATION IN NEW TIMES: Changes and Problems
   Yongbing Liu
10. IMAGES OF A CHANGING CURRICULUM
    Lorraine Marneweck
11. IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF UNCERTAINTY: Rhizomatics and Environmental Education
    Joy Hardy
12. LEARNING BY REVOICING
    Min Chen
13. SPEECH PATHOLOGY SUPPORT TO ADOLESCENTS WITH A LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT: A work in progress
    Karen Hollands
14. FROM MATHS PROBLEM TO PROGRAM:
    Janelle Pollard and Roger Duke
15. THE TROUBLE WITH CONTEXT
    Allan Luke