ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to challenge the existing paradigm of educational research in terms of sampling, and offers some innovative marginal solutions that could be gainfully brought into the mainstream. It identifies the main barriers as the institutional security, a narrow focus on the universities' own students, and lack of affordable and reliable access to videoconferencing technology. The chapter highlights an apparent gap in the research literature: the barriers to conducting in-school research interstate and in rural and remote regions. The problem must be widely acknowledged before definitive solutions can be sought, but the chapter has offered some potential solutions, as devised and tested during a doctoral research project. Many other countries like USA, UK, Canada and China, have states, provinces or counties where education is not centralised. With the nationalisation of the Australian curriculum, it would seem timely to propose nationalisation of concomitant systems such as working with children checks and applications to conduct research in government schools.
