Navigating the Education Research Maze

This book depicts rigorous and vigorous accounts of strategies used successfully by researchers to negotiate their way through the research maze. The metaphor of the maze evokes several different and sometimes contradictory elements of contemporary education research, including complexity, confusion, messiness, multiplicity and risk. While these are not necessarily or wholly negative attributes, it is important for researchers to be able to articulate and implement effective strategies for engaging wholeheartedly with these situations to navigate the education research maze.  The book is structured around three main themes; politics, ethics, philosophies and theories of education research mazes; mazes in and with specific research methods; and mazes in and with specific research tasks and technologies. Each account develops broader lessons for enhancing the impact, quality, relevance and significance of research in other disciplines as well as education. 

Dolene Rossi is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Central Queensland University, Australia. Dolene is currently a member of the Central Queensland Hospital Health Service ethics committee. Francis Gacenga is the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation eResearch Analyst at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Patrick Alan Danaher is Associate Dean (Research and Research Training) in the Faculty of Education, Law and Arts at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He is also currently Adjunct Professor in the School of Education and the Arts in the Higher Education Division at Central Queensland, Australia.