ABSTRACT

This book explores different perspectives on the role, influence and importance of participants in education research. Drawing on a variety of philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches, the book examines how researchers relate to and with their participants before, during, and after the collection and/or production of data; reimagining the rights of participants, the role/s of participants, the concept/s of "participant" itself.

part |74 pages

Part II Epistemologies

chapter |2 pages

Part II Introduction

Epistemologies

chapter |16 pages

9 Blurring the Boundaries

The Transformative Nature of Research Participation

chapter |14 pages

10 The Country's Not What It Used to Be

Research Participants' Understandings of Space, Place, and Identity in Rural Victoria

chapter |15 pages

11 Naming, Framing, and Sometimes Shaming

Reimagining Relationships with Education Research Participants

part |94 pages

Part III Methods

chapter |14 pages

13 “Laat Dit Goed Gaan”

Revisioning Education Research through Teaching Afrikaans as a Foreign Language to Australian Adolescents on the Basis of Moral Education and Ethics of Care

chapter |11 pages

14 Participants and Research Method Design

The Development of Narrative Discussion Group Method

chapter |18 pages

16 How Do the Participants Feel about Learning Statistics?

Exploring Group Differences in Middle School Students' Interest

chapter |15 pages

17 Actor-Network Theory

A Device for Reimagining Participants in Education Research

chapter |8 pages

Respondent's Text

Taking Researching With Vs. Researching On Seriously: A Detour via the Intercultural?