Table Of ContentPALGRAVE STUDIES IN
EDUCATION RESEARCH METHODS
Edited by Bobby Harreveld, Mike Danaher,
Celeste Lawson, Bruce Allan Knight and Gillian Busch
CONSTRUCTING
METHODOLOGY
FOR QUALITATIVE
RESEARCH
Researching Education
and Social Practices
Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods
Series Editors
Patrick Danaher
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba , Queensland, Australia
Fred Dervin
Th e University of Helsinki
Helsinki , Finland
Caroline Dyer
School of Politics and International Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds , United Kingdom
Máirín Kenny
Wexford , Ireland
Bobby Harreveld
School of Education and the Arts
Central Queensland University
Rockhampton , Australia
Michael Singh
University of Western Sydney
Penrith , New South Wales, Australia
Bobby Harreveld • M ike D anaher • C eleste L awson
Bruce A llen Knight • Gillian B usch
Editors
Constructing
Methodology for
Qualitative Research
Researching Education and Social Practices
Editors
Bobby Harreveld Bruce A llen Knight
School of Education and the Arts Central Queensland University
Central Queensland University Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Rockhampton, Australia
Mike Danaher Gillian Busch
School of Education and the Arts Central Queensland University
Central Queensland University Rockhampton North, Queensland,
Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia Australia
Celeste Lawson
North Rockhampton Campus
Central Queensland University
North Rockhampton, Queensland,
Australia
Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods
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CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The editors and authors are very grateful to the following individuals,
without whom this book would not have been published.
• Mr Andrew James and Ms Eleanor Christie and their colleagues at
Palgrave Macmillan for the warm, professionally considerate and effi -
cient manner in which our proposal was considered as well as the
continued courteous effi ciency with which the production process
has been managed.
• The anonymous reviewer of the book proposal who provided such
insightful feedback to us via Palgrave Macmillan.
• The Offi ce of Research and the School of Education and the Arts
at Central Queensland University provided the funding support for
the research symposium from which this edited collection has been
constructed.
• Ms Jodie Gunders has provided truly exemplary project manage-
ment at all stages of the book’s production. Her knowledge, skills
and commitment have been integral to bringing this collaboration
to fruition.
• The scholars who provided double-blind peer reviews of one or more
submitted chapters in this book:
– Dr Lindy-Anne Abawi, University of Southern Queensland,
Toowoomba, Australia
– Dr Amy Antonio, University of Southern Queensland, Springfi eld,
Australia
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vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
– Professor Josie Arnold, Swinburne University of Technology,
Melbourne, Australia
– Associate Professor Jon Austin, University of Southern
Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia
– Dr Wendi Beamish, Griffi th University, Brisbane, Australia
– Dr Jane Bone, Monash University, Frankston, Australia
– Mrs Phyllida Coombes, independent scholar, Bundaberg, Australia
– Dr Geoff Danaher, independent scholar, Yeppoon, Australia
– Dr Christina Davidson, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga,
Australia
– Dr Mark Dawson, University of Southern Queensland,
Toowoomba, Australia
– Dr Sue Elliot, University of New England, Armidale, Australia
– Ms Yvonne Findlay, University of Southern Queensland,
Toowoomba, Australia
– Dr Nicole Green, University of Southern Queensland,
Toowoomba, Australia
– Dr Hanna Guttorm, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
– Dr Barbara Harmes, University of Southern Queensland,
Toowoomba, Australia
– Dr Marcus Harmes, University of Southern Queensland,
Toowoomba, Australia
– Dr Linda Henderson, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne,
Australia
– Dr Henk Huijser, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou,
People’s Republic of China
– Dr Candace Kuby, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
– Associate Professor Jennifer Lock, University of Calgary, Calgary,
Canada
– Associate Professor Nana Osei-Kofi , Oregon State University,
Corvallis, USA
– Dr Rebecca Scollen, University of Southern Queensland,
Toowoomba, Australia
– Dr Sarah Shear, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, USA
– M s Lyn Sherrington, Griffi th University, Brisbane, Australia
– Professor Margaret Sims, University of New England, Armidale,
Australia
– Dr Jill Smith, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
– Dr Maryanne Theobold, Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane, Australia
– Dr Beth Thomas, State University of New York, New Paltz, USA
– Dr Donna M. Velliaris, Eynesbury Institute of Business and
Technology, Adelaide, Australia
– Associate Professor Susan Walsh, Mount Saint Vincent University,
Halifax, Canada
– Ms Amber Ward, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
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ONTENTS
1 Introduction 1
Bobby Harreveld , Mike Danaher , Celeste Lawson ,
Bruce Allen Knight , and Gillian Busch
2 A Non-binary Methodological Manoeuvre:
Expert Quantitative and Novice Qualitative
Researcher 1 5
Gemma Mann
3 Dipping Qualitative Toes into a Quantitative
Worldview: Methodological Manoeuvres
in a Multicultural Context 31
Cynthia Cowling and C eleste Lawson
4 Navigating the Path Between Positivism
and Interpretivism for the Technology Academic
Completing Education Research 45
Michael A. Cowling
5 A Bricoleur Approach to Navigating
the Methodological Maze 5 9
Reyna Zipf
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