This book sets out a new and distinctive means of conceptualising
research in the field of Education: 'Freedom Research'. Freedom research
is a conceptual understanding of research free from the strictures of
orthodoxy; which adapts or knowingly critiques conventions about the
ways in which research should be conducted. Underpinning this concept is
the argument that the conventions of traditional approaches to research
in education may be both confidence-sapping and constrictive to both the
early career and mature educational researcher. By critiquing the
boundaries of a socially constructed discipline, the researcher may then
be liberated to research with freedom, creativity and innovation. This
pioneering volume will assist the researcher to become more autonomous,
and by extension more confident, in their own research practice. It will
be of appeal to scholars, students and researchers in Education, of all
stages of their career.