Daredevil Research: Re-creating Analytic Practice gathers together ten research projects that seek to transform thinking about analytic practice and the construction of research knowledge. By experimenting with alternative models of representation unconstrained by the weight of traditional research protocols, the authors create multiple spaces for imagining how to differently identify issues for inquiry, select modes of analysis, and inscribe «data» into transmittable form. At once a production of research knowledge and a conceptual field for meaning-making, Daredevil Research suggests the possibilities of analytic practice in imaginative, independent space.

The Editors: Nicholas B. Paley teaches courses in curriculum and education at George Washington University. His recent book Finding Art’s Place: Experiments in Contemporary Education and Culture, examines three artistic/educational experiments outside of school settings and the configurations of art in the lives of urban youth. Janice A. Jipson teaches courses in educational foundations and research at Carroll College. Her collaboratively authored book, Repositioning Feminism and Education: Perspectives on Educating for Social Change, focuses on the experiences of five teacher-researchers facing dilemmas of imposition in their research and teaching.