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Relationships matter: some benefits,challenges and tensions associated with forming a collaborative educational researcher group |
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| Authors: | Sandie Wong E Murray C Rivalland H Monk L Piazza-McFarland G Daniel |
| Institution: | 1. Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education, Charles Sturt University Bathurst, Bathurst, NSW, Australia 2. School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University Dubbo, Dubbo, NSW, Australia 3. Department of Education, Monash University, Frankston, VIC, Australia 4. School of Education, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia 5. School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University Bathurst, Bathurst, NSW, Australia |
| Abstract: | Growing recognition of the complexity of children’s lives has led to strong advocacy in education research literature for greater collaboration between researchers from different paradigms to address the ‘wicked’ problems that face contemporary children and families. There is little literature, however, exploring how collaboration works in practice. This paper, drawing on researcher reflective narrative, and using Cultural Historical Activity Theory as a heuristic framework, describes and critiques the formative stages of an educational research collaborative group of five early and one mid-career early childhood education researchers (the authors), from two universities, and with quite different epistemological and ontological understandings. It outlines, from an insider perspective, some of the outcomes, challenges and tensions associated with participating in the research group, and concludes by providing some implications for policy and considerations for those contemplating forming a collaborative group. |
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