Troubling Terrains Tactics for Traversing and Transforming Contemporary Educational Research

"This book engages with the idea of educational research as locations, as places, as sites, as spaces as terrains. It explores multiple ways in which these terrains may be contentious, contested and controversial and shows how such terrains may be troubling: in their impact on educational researchers and research participants, and in the capacity of educational researchers and research participants to resist and transform competing forces and interests and thus create new and more enabling research terrains. Troubling Terrains pursues the ambivalence of whether educational research helps to replicate existing sociocultural privilege and/or works to disrupt that privilege and to construct alternative understandings of current issues. In the process, it presents tactics that have proved helpful to traverse and transform the troubling terrains that constitute contemporary educational research."--Provided by publisher.