Challenges of educational research highlighted in new book
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Associate Professor Patrick Danaher
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A new book penned by a number of USQ academics and postgraduate students, which highlights the challenges in contemporary educational research, will be officially launched next Monday 8 December 2008.
An initiative of the University's Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Group, Troubling Terrains addresses the difficulties many researchers face when exploring educational issues.
'This is a book about challenges and strategies in contemporary educational research,' Faculty of Education academic and Troubling Terrains co-editor Associate Professor Patrick Danaher said.
'It consists of 15 chapters, which explore how contemporary educational researchers are sometimes troubled by what they research and also how they can trouble the status quo.
'Through this exploration hopefully new understandings of education and research can emerge.'
A variety of issues are covered in the book, which also has special contributions from a number of international educational researchers.
'Topics covered in the book range from creativity and lifelong learning to chronic illness and pediatric inactivity to early years education and online education,' Associate Professor Danaher said.
'There is also a special feature: a chapter written by daughter and mother Kirsten and Shelley Kinash about children and adults striving to understand each other's perceptions of the world.
'Professor Rob Walker of the University of East Anglia in the UK provides the foreword, while there is also a Respondent's Text by Professor Andre Grace of the University of Alberta in Canada.'
The book will be officially launched by USQ Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Scholarship) Professor Graham Baker and Faculty of Education Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor Nita Temmerman.
Media are welcome to attend the event.
Media Contact: Josh Ada, USQ Media, +61 7 4631 2559