Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: Contemporary Qualitative Research for Science and Mathematics Educators Peter C. Taylor and John Wallace SECTION I: MOVING FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF RESEARCH Chapter 2: Working with Critical Feedback to Improve Research Writing Patricia Forster Chapter 3: Understanding Teacher Understanding: An Ethical Challenge Adrienne T. Gibson Chapter 4: Historicity, Narrative and Metaphor: My Journey through Historical Research Robyn White Chapter 5: Understanding the Self as Instrument Judith Mulholland Chapter 6: Exploring Students\' Futures Images David Lloyd Chapter 7: School Science Stories and a Strategy of Action for Cultural Transformation Catherine Milne SECTION II: MEETING THE RESEARCH CRISES Chapter 8: Exploring Students\' Learning Experiences through Narrative Tales Vaille Dawson Chapter 9: Naturalistic Inquiry in Cross-Cultural Research: A Narrative Turn Jill Slay Chapter 10: A Question of Balance: Critical Incidents, Tensions and Curriculum Change Bob Fitzpatrick Chapter 11: Out of the Ashes: An Autoethnography Russel Montgomery Chapter 12: The Impact of a Research Vignette on My Metaphorical Understandings John Willison Chapter 13: Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Impressionist Tales and Secret Stories of Life in Classrooms David Geelan SECTION III: A NEW ERA OF RESEARCH Chapter 14: Being Punk Helps to Perform a Phenomenological Study Georgina Hawley Chapter 15: A Journey in the Construction of Meaning: Experiencing and Accounting for Emergent Research Methodology Kwena Masha Chapter 16: Excavating A Researcher\'s Moral Sensitivities: An Autobiographical Research Approach Elizabeth Settelmaier Chapter 17:Developing Perspectival Understanding Les Pereira Chapter 18: Beyond Bricolage Tanya Vernon Chapter 19: Storying, Critical Reflexivity and Imagination Bal Chandra Luitel Contributors Citation Index Index