Beyond Binaries in Education Research (Routledge Research in Education)

✍ Scribed by Warren Midgley, Mark A. Tyler, Patrick Alan Danaher, Alison Mander

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 302
• Series: Routledge Research in Education
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Beyond Binaries in Education Research explores the ethical, methodological, and social justice issues relating to conceptualizations of binary opposites in education research, particularly where one side of the dualism is perceived to be positive and the other negative. In education research these may include ability-disability, academic-vocational, adult-child, formal-informal learning, male-female, research-practice, researcher-participant, sedentary-mobile, and West-East. Chapters in this book explore the resilience of binary constructions and present conceptual models for moving beyond them and/or reconceptualizing them to facilitate more productive approaches to education provision. With contributors from authors working in a multitude of educational fields and countries, this book provides a significant contribution to the ongoing challenge to seek new ways to move beyond binaries in education research.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 10
Figures......Page 14
Tables......Page 16
Foreword: Renewing the Critical Function of Education Research......Page 18
Preface......Page 22
Acknowledgments......Page 24
1 Constructing and Deconstructing Binaries in Education Research......Page 26
Part I: Researching Researchers......Page 38
Part I: Introduction......Page 40
2 Methodology, the Western, and Myself The West/Non-West Binary in a Non-Western Educational Researcher’s Pursuit of a PhD......Page 42
3 Determining a Voice to Use in Writing About Mixed Methods Research......Page 52
4 Beyond Observer and Observed in Reflexive Analysis......Page 59
5 Destabilizing Binaries in Early Childhood Education: The Possibilities of Pedagogical Documentation......Page 71
6 Moving Beyond Sedentarism Conceptual and Empirical Developments......Page 85
Part II: Privileging Participants......Page 104
Part II: Introduction......Page 106
7 A Tango in VET: Whose Notion of TAFE Teacher Leads?......Page 108
8 Beyond the Binaries That Keep Us From Writing With and Like Children......Page 125
9 Burying the Binaries: Getting Discourses to Converge in a Program for First-Year University Students......Page 144
10 Not Education Research Binaries: Just Parts of a Whole......Page 156
11 Beyond the Binary of Researcher/Researched: The Complexities of Participatory Action Research......Page 172
12 Understanding Cultural Differences Between Western and Confucian Teaching and Learning......Page 186
Part III: Considering Contexts......Page 202
Part III: Introduction......Page 204
13 From Maintaining to Sustaining: Moving Beyond Binaries Toward a Framework for Cultural Sustainability in Higher Education......Page 206
14 Exposing Bush Binaries: Using the Media to Problematize Gender......Page 220
15 Expectations of Ability and Disability at University: The Fine Art of Managing Lives, Perceptions, and Curricula......Page 236
16 Formal, Informal, and Incidental Learning: How Recreational-Diving Instructors Achieve Competency......Page 246
17 Limited-Term Contracts and Tenure: The Case of Foreign-Language Teachers in a Japanese University......Page 257
18 Beyond Educator/ Practitioner Binaries: Overcoming Barriers to Cooperation Using Professional Cultural Axes......Page 267
Respondent’s Text......Page 284
Contributors......Page 290
Index......Page 298