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.