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Book review: Christian Heath, The Dynamics of Auction: Social Interaction and the Sale of Fine Art and Antiques

is one way of thinking, teaching and conducting research. She contends that teaching education through a corporatised outcome-based methodology that is not permitted to be qualitatively explored and scrutinised leaves no room to provide analysis for how to improve a system that is failing many. However, Chapter 40, ‘Writing as Critical Literacy Engagement: Outliers and the Recursive Nature of Critical Qualitative Research’ (Park) would have been an equally fitting closure to CQRR as it justifies the reason why critical qualitative research is conducted: to explore that which is considered ‘normal’ through the lenses of those who live as outsiders within regularised societies. Park’s chapter discusses the dangers of scientific/quantitative research that excludes outliers in its datasets can have on marginalised people (who are in fact outliers). He justifies the importance of, and need for, qualitative research to explore outliers because of the significant value their experiences can provide to the knowledge and understanding of society. Without research that explores and showcases the voices and counter narrative experiences of the marginalised, their lived truths will continue to be ignored, overlooked and forgotten by society. CQRR is an excellent compilation of theory, methods and action research in practice. My only criticism of the book is the lack of critical appraisal of the writers’ own qualitative methods: What are some of the drawbacks of methods used? And how can these be overcome? However, overall, CQRR is an extremely useful handbook that will inform and engage new researchers while simultaneously challenge and perhaps wake up some mid to late stage researchers by motivating them to become more actively involved in how their research can have an impact on social justice to help improve society.