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Contemporary educational issues are abundant and diverse. These issues include claims and counter-claims, debates and questions about matters ranging from national curricula (Oates, 2011; Tani, 2011) and standardised assessment of students’ learning (Au, 2009; Richards, Vining, & Weimer, 2010) to parental involvement in school governance (Addi-Raccah & Ronit, 2009; Blackmore & Hutchison, 2010) and government funding of public education (Tandberg, 2010; White & Friendly, 2012) to the empowerment of so-called marginalised communities (Chilisa & Ntseane, 2010; Morton & Montgomery, 2012) and the ethics and politics of education research (Sikes & Piper, 2010; Basit, 2013).
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Redmond, P., Lock, J., Danaher, P.A. (2015). Interrogating Contemporary Research in Educational Innovation. In: Redmond, P., Lock, J., Danaher, P.A. (eds) Educational Innovations and Contemporary Technologies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137468611_1
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