Mainstreams, Margins and the Spaces In-between

Karen Trimmer is Associate Professor in the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education, University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Alison L. Black is Lecturer of Education and Early Childhood Education in the School of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.Stewart Riddle is Lecturer of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

• 1. Researching the In-betweens: Blurring the Boundaries of Mainstream and Marginal Education Stewart Riddle, Alison L. Black and Karen Trimmer 2. Building a Tapestry of Knowledge in the Spaces In-between: Weaving Personal and Collective Meaning through Arts-based Research Alison L. Black and Sandra O’Dea 3. Researching the Place of Gratitude in the Personal Domain of the Educator: Tales from the Field Kerry Howells 4. Mainstreaming Margins: Analysing the Knowledge of an Australian University Research Team Karl J. Matthews and P. A. Danaher 5. Where the Wild Things Are: Sustaining Practice in the Loneliest Place Julie A. Hollitt 6. Neither of the Air, nor of the Earth but a Creature Somewhere Between: The Researcher as Traveller Between Worlds Janice K. Jones 7. Insider/Outsider Research on Steiner Education in Australia: One Researcher’s Struggles with Positioning Tao Bak 8. Too Cool for Homeschool? Accessing Underground Unschoolers with Web 2.0 Rebecca English 9. Reducing the Marginalisation of Children: Relational Knowledge Production and the Power of Collaboration Alison L. Black, Gillian Busch and Marion Hayes 10. ‘Schools are for us’: The Importance of Distribution, Recognition and Representation to Creating Socially Just Schools Martin Mills, Glenda McGregor, Debra Hayes and Kitty te Riele 11. Speaking Back to the Mainstream from the Margins: Lessons from One Boutique Senior Secondary School Stewart Riddle and David Cleaver 12. Maths Challenges for Pre-service Teachers Nicholas Flegg and Karen Trimmer 13. Impacts on Awareness, Access and Utilisation of Early Intervention Support Services for Indigenous Families Living in Rural and Remote Areas: The National Disability Insurance Scheme Karen Trimmer, Roselyn Dixon, and Kerry Stubbs 14. On the Fringe of Research: The Case of Community Policing Celeste Lawson 15. Margins for Error: A Discussion of Barriers Preventing the Connection of Mainstream and Margins when Conducting In-school Research Jennifer Donovan 16. A Journey In-between: Using Talanoa in Research Reporting Susan Faoagali and Eileen Honan 17. A Story of Poetry and its Provocative Place in Re-presentation Sarah Loch 18. Reflective Questions Editors