Educational Researchers and the Regional University Agents of Region
This book showcases a compilation of research partnerships produced by the Federation University Gippsland School of Education. Through this book, readers will gain valuable insights into how education research initiatives can help adapt to an age charact
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al Researchers and the Regional University Agents of Regional-Global Transformations
Educational Researchers and the Regional University
Monica Green Susan Plowright Nicola F. Johnson •
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Educational Researchers and the Regional University Agents of Regional-Global Transformations
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Editors Monica Green Federation University Australia Gippsland, VIC, Australia
Susan Plowright Federation University Australia Gippsland, VIC, Australia
Nicola F. Johnson Edith Cowan University Mount Lawley, WA, Australia
ISBN 978-981-13-6377-1 ISBN 978-981-13-6378-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6378-8
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Foreword: Educational Research that Leads Us to the ‘Precipice’ of Place
The quality of human–world relationships must first acknowledge that places themselves have something to say (Grunewald, 2013, p. 624). But just as in ecological systems, these margins, or these edge communities, are often places of great diversity and abundance. As such, they are places of hope. They are places that remind us of what is possible and that offer us accounts of collective action that can help us create our own edges, our own vital connection to place. These are the places that can open us, that can lead us to the precipice of our own shared lives (Greenwood, 2015, pp. x–xiii).
This is a book about place-based educational research and a committed group of researchers who with and through their place have something to say. The chapters offer readers various insights into the ways this group of researchers, collectively known as Federa
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