Educational Research And Research Education In Australia

Jane Kenway\u27s chapter in Marginson, S. and Manderson, L. (Eds) Postgraduate Training in the Social Sciences (2002) considers the specificity of Education faculties in Australia over time and the implications of key changes within the tertiary sector, education systems and the education profession for their research, postgraduate and, in particular, Doctoral programs. In the process, it points to the ways that the structure and character of postgraduate research have evolved in Education faculties and to the changing definitions of key stakeholders in educational research. It shows that the purposes and outcomes of, and the key stakeholders in, Doctoral and other educational research are a continuing source of creative tension within Education faculties