This book depicts rigorous and vigorous accounts of strategies used successfully by researchers to negotiate their way through the research maze. The metaphor of the maze evokes several different and sometimes contradictory elements of contemporary education research, including complexity, confusion, messiness, multiplicity and risk. While these are not necessarily or wholly negative attributes, it is important for researchers to be able to articulate and implement effective strategies for engaging wholeheartedly with these situations to navigate the education research maze. The book is structured around three main themes; politics, ethics, philosophies and theories of education research mazes; mazes in and with specific research methods; and mazes in and with specific research tasks and technologies. Each account develops broader lessons for enhancing the impact, quality, relevance and significance of research in other disciplines as well as education. 

Chapter 1. Navigating, Negotiating and Nullifying Research Mazes: Successful Strategies for Mobilising Contextual, Conceptual, Methodological and Transformational Challenges and Opportunities; Patrick Alan Danaher, Dolene Rossi and Francis Gacenga.- PART I: NAVIGATING THE POLITICS, ETHICS, PHILOSOPHIES AND THEORIES OF EDUCATION.- Part I Introduction; Patrick Alan Danaher.- Chapter 2. Researchers Navigating the Maze: At What Price?; Cecily Jensen-Clayton and Atholl Murray.- Chapter 3. “Have You Been Non-Compliant?”: Dilemmas of Decision-Making for School Principals and Education Researchers.- Karen Trimmer.- Chapter 4. Navigating the Terrain of Methodological Uncertainties to New Space Research.- Yvonne Salton.- Chapter 5. Navigating the Scholarship of Integration from a Maze; Jay Somasundaram, Prue Howard and Rob H. Reed,- PART II: NAVIGATING MAZES IN AND WITH SPECIFIC RESEARCH METHODS.- Part II Introduction; Francis Gacenga.- Chapter 6. Practice-Led Research: Creating, Embodying and Shifting Understandings of Research; Bernadette Meenach.- Chapter 7. Investigating Creative Arts Practices in Australian Home Education through Design-Based Research: Entering the Research Maze with the Spirit of Adventure; Katie Burke.- Chapter 8. Meandering in the Maze of Mixed Methods: Navigating Stratefies of a Researcher into the influence of the Mass Media on Children's Science Understandings; Jennifer Donovan.- Chapter 9. Navigating, Negotiationg and Nullifying Contradictions in the Research around School Curriculum Change; Wendy Fasso, Bruce Knight and Ken Purnell.- Chapter 10. Research as a 'Quest' through a 'Maze' of Representations: Understanding Metaphorical and Image Constructions in Research a Research Community; Rennie Naidoo.- PART III: NAVIGATING MAZES IN AND WITH SPECIFIC RESEARCH TASKS AND TECHNOLOGIES.- Part III Introduction; Dolene Rossi.- Chapter 11. Many Paths to Discovery: The Increasingly Complex Literature Maze; Lindy Ramsay and Moira Williamson.- Chapter 12. Food for Thought: Managing Secondary Data for Research; Nargis Pervin, Rohit Nishant and Philip J. Kitchen.- Chapter 13. The Compass, Navigation and the Journey: The Role of eResearch in Navigating the Research Maze; Francis Gacenga.- Chapter 14. Collaborative Research: A Partnership Which Seizes Opportunities, Navigates Challenges and Constructs New Knowledge and Shared Understandings; Dolene Rossi.- Chapter 15. Working Beyond the Research Maze; Cecily Jensen-Clayton and Atholl Murray.- Afterword.