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Beyond Binaries in Education Research explores the ethical, methodological, and social justice issues relating to conceptualizations of binary opposites in education research, particularly where one side of the dualism is perceived to be positive and the other negative. In education research these may include ability-disability, academic-vocational, adult-child, formal-informal learning, male-female, research-practice, researcher-participant, sedentary-mobile, and West-East. Chapters in this book explore the resilience of binary constructions and present conceptual models for moving beyond the

Literacy and language diversity : challenges for education research and practice in the 21st century / Ingrid Gogolin -- Framing global education in the United States : policy perspectives / Laura C. Engel and Megan M. Siczek -- The education of refugee children : human rights enactment and educational policy discourses in Italy and the UK / Valentina Migliarini -- Differentiation in middle-class identities, values and responses when integrating to predominantly working-class and multi-ethnic school of choice / Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir -- Education as a community project : understanding place-based learning / Wenche Rønning, Jennifer Wood Adams, and Bronwen J. Cohn -- The children come and go : how educating military-connected students impacts the work of school teachers, counselors and administrators / Johanna K. Garner, Pamela Arnold-Puchalski, and John A. Nunnery -- Social inequality in attitudes and behavior : the implications of the Flemish tracking system for equity / Jannick Demanet, Laura Van den Broeck, and Mieke Van Houtte -- A transnational analysis of students' interests in science and science related research careers / George L. Wimberly -- Exploring possible effects of differential item functioning on reading achievement across language subgroups : a South African perspective / Surrette van Staden -- The conceptualization and measurement of student engagement in science : a cross-cultural examination from Finland and the United States / Justina Spicer, Barbara Schneider, Katariina Salmela-Aro, and Julia Moeller

Preliminary Material /David B. Zandvliet -- Diversity in Environmental Education /David Zandvliet , Carlos Ormond , Susan Teed , Veronica Hotton , Melanie Young and Quirien Mulder Ten Kate -- Towards Epistemologically Sound Approaches in Environmental Education /Michiel Van Eijck and Wolff-Michael Roth -- Three Perspectives of Environmental Education in Israel: Ideologies, National Conflicts and the Environmental Movement /Tali Tal -- The Impact of Methodological Practices in Research and Evaluation in Environmental Learning /Bruce johnson and Constantinos C. Manoli -- Visual Methodologies: Exploring Indigenous Constructions of Self and Environment /Joanna Kidman -- Using Chat to Identify Barriers to Education for Sustainable Development /Ahmad Qablan , Sherry Southerland and Yavuz Saka -- Unpacking the Complex Influence of Schooling, Sense of Place and Culture on the Motivation of Taiwanese Elementary Students to Learn Science in School: Using A Socio-Cultural Approach With Phenomenological Research Methodologies /Eleanor Abrams , Chiung-Fen Yen , Erica Blatt and Lihua Ho -- Critical Discourse Analysis: A Research Methodology for the Analysis of Environmental Education Materials /Joan M. Chambers -- Globalization and Education for Sustainable Development in Teaching Science: Perspectives from Chile, China and Canada /Susan Barker , Pat Rowell , Pilar Reyes , Jianzhong Zhou , Frank Jenkins , Zhaoning Ye , Min Wang and Evelyn Leyton Fuentes -- Living in and off the Environment: Educating for Sustainable Development in an Unequal World /Bob Manteaw -- Place-Based Learning Environments in India, Mauritius and Australia /Rekha B. Koul and David Zandvliet.

Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to store and analyze data, so have the world's governments developed large-scale, comprehensive data files on tax programs, workforce information, benefit programs, health, and education. While these data are collected for purely administrative purposes, they represent remarkable new opportunities for expanding our knowledge. This chapter describes some of the benefits and challenges associated with the use of administrative data in education research. We also offer specific case studies of data that have been developed in both the Nordic countries and the United States, and offer an (incomplete) inventory of data sets used by social scientists to study education questions on every inhabited continent on earth.

1 Statistical Methods in Economic Education Research -- 2 Building Theoretical Models -- 3 Measuring Intervention, Interaction, and Distribution Effects with Dummy Variables -- 4 Experimental and Nonexperimental Approaches to Statistical Research -- 5 Measurement Instruments -- 6 Simultaneous Equations Estimation -- 7 Applying Two-Stage Least Squares -- 8 The Probit Model -- 9 The Analysis of Qualitative and Limited Responses -- 10 Limited and Discrete Dependent Variable Models -- 11 Simultaneous Nonlinear Learning Models -- 12 Using Bayesian Analysis -- About the Authors.

This volume of Theory and Method in Higher Education Researchexplores several timely topics including transnational approaches to higher education policy, universities contributions to society, data collection in higher education, virtual and blended research, and more.