Researching Within the Educational Margins: Selected Answers to the Organising Questions

This final chapter in the book affords the opportunity to review the preceding chapters against the backdrop of the book’s objectives and foci. This process is facilitated by the selection of three themes that emerged as running across those chapters: the importance of individualised learning, not only for the participating individuals but also for the holistic wellness of society as a whole; the continuing constraints of educational marginalisation and the deleterious effects that these constraints have on the education system itself; and the importance of the contexts of learning not being limited by formalised, tightly controlled philosophies of what it is to be an effective learner. These themes are then aligned with distilled responses to the book’s five organising questions