What is Next in Educational Research?

Foreword.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Section 1: Issues in Educational Research Design and Methodology.- Turning Good Ideas into Quality Research.- Musings Yesterday and Knowledge Tomorrow: Beyond Reflexive Accounts of Research Encounters.- A Reflective Model for Action Research: An Evolving Pedagogical Trajectory.- Linking Research and Practice: Educational Design Research.- The Challenges of Undertaking Citizenship Education Research in Pakistan.- Using Stories to Investigate, Reflect on and Raise Social Consciousness in a Sporting Culture.- Scaling the Tower of Babel: A Researcher's Journey into the Risks and Rewards of Multilingual Research.- Section 2: Social Integration and Education: Non-Traditional Students.- Constructing an Identity: A Key to Learning.- Early French Immersion in British Columbia: A Consideration of the 'Struggling Learner'.- The Experiences and Perceptions of Non-Traditional Students Enrolled in an Online Teacher Education Course.- Confronting Educational Disadvantage by Improving Tasmanian Adolescents' Participation in Education.- Refugee Settlement in Australia and the Challenges for Integration.- Section 3: Researching Language Education.- Language Education: Policy and Practice.- Issues in English Language Teaching in Nepal.- Mind Your Language: Exploring Students' Motivations Concerning Elective Second Language Learning.- Measurement of Vocabulary Knowledge: Problems and Solutions.- Section 4: Leadership: Implementing Educational Programs.- Manifestations of Leadership in Diverse Educational Settings.- Leading the Quality of Teaching within Schools.- Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning Approaches for Children: A New Zealand Case Study.- A Framework to Explore Common Incidents in Secondary Schools Guided by Content Analysis.- The Establishment of a Framework of Communicative Competence of Seafarers: A Systematic Review.- A Framework of Conditions Supporting Early Career Teacher Resilience and Creativity.- Professional Learning and Development for Pedagogical Leadership in Family Day Care in Tasmania.- Section 5: Issues in Contemporary Education.- What Is the Purpose of Education?.- Putting on the Style: Enhancing Citizenship Education with a Persuasive Writing Framework.- Fiji Primary School Teachers' Perceptions of Classroom-Based Assessment.- The Role of Animals in the Values Development of Children.- Arts for Sustainability: Teachers' Perspectives of Intersections between Education for Sustainability and Arts Learning.- Research Writing: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective.- About the Contributors.- External Reviewers.