Overview

Troubling Terrains engages with the idea of educational research as locations, as places, as sites, as spaces - as terrains. It explores multiple ways in which these terrains may be contentious, contested and controversial and shows how such terrains may be troubling:

• In their impact on educational researchers and research participants, and
• In the capacity of educational researchers and research participants to resist and transform competing forces and interests and thus create new and more enabling research terrains.

This book pursues one of the ambivalences of educational research. Does educational research help to replicate existing sociocultural privilege? Or does it work to disrupt that privilege and to construct alternative understandings of current issues? In this process, the book presents tactics for traversing and transforming the troubling and sometimes troubled terrains of contemporary educational research.

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Table of Contents

Preface - Nita Temmerman
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Foreword - Rob Walker
Dedication

• Chapter 1
  Contemporary educational research: Selected tactics and tools for traversing and transforming the terrains
  Robyn Henderson and Patrick Alan Danaher
• Chapter 2
  Tracking creativity and creative learning: Traversing a troubled terrain
  Janine McCaffrey
• Chapter 3
  Storied by children: Authored by Adults
  Kirsten Kinash and Shelley Kinash
• Chapter 4
  Crossing terrains: Snow White in Wonderland
  Anne Luthy
• Chapter 5
  Putting chronically-ill university students into the research limelight
  Shalene Werth
• Chapter 6
  Voyaging in and writing back: Charting a course of action sensitive to intercultural difference
  Kathie Young
• Chapter 7
  The challenging terrains of educating girls in Papua New Guinea
  Dinah R Dovona-Ope
• Chapter 8
  Transforming place, space and inner terrain in three fields of adult education research
  Patrick Alan Danaher, Mark A Tyler and Catherine H Arden
• Chapter 9
  Mapping the inner landscape of Australian TAFE teachers: Navigating contours by explicating critical spirit
  Mark A Tyler
• Chapter 10
  The troubling terrain of lifelong learning: A highway cruise or a cross-country trek?
  Robert D White
• Chapter 11
  Towards a new frontier in understanding the contextual influences on paediatric inactivity
  Alice Brown
• Chapter 12
  Virtual territories: Transformative learning in online higher education contexts
  Shirley E Reushle
• Chapter 13
  Lost in the wilderness: When the search for identity comes up blank
  Warren Midgley
• Chapter 14
  In the third space: The storied self, uncertainty and transition
  Janice Jones
• Chapter 15
  Dangerous terrains: Negotiating ethical dilemmas
  Robyn Henderson
• Respondent's text
  Situating contemporary educational research as a traversing and transformative practice
  André P Grace

Index