Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in Educational Research: Methods at the Margins

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Politics of Knowledge: What an Examination of the Margins Can Offer....Pages 15-19
On the Tasks of the Critical Educational Scholar/Activist....Pages 21-34
Making Sense of the Call for Scientifically Based Research in Education....Pages 35-46
Limits to Knowledge with Existential Significance: An Outline for the Exploration of Post-secular Spirituality of Relevance to Qualitative Research....Pages 47-61
Theory of the Margins: Liberating Research in Education....Pages 63-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Uncloaking Epistemologies through Methodology....Pages 79-83
Researching as if Place Mattered: Toward a Methodology of Emplacement....Pages 85-96
Twisted Time: The Educative Chronologies of American Indian History....Pages 97-110
Researching Hispanic Undergraduates: Conceptual and Methodological Unease....Pages 111-126
Get Real: The Process of Validating Research across Racial Lines....Pages 127-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Engaging the Margins: Working Toward a Methodology of Empowerment....Pages 141-146
Educating the “Savage” and “Civilized”: Santa Clara Pueblo Indians at the 1904 St. Louis Expo....Pages 147-158
Intimately Biased: Creating Purposeful Research in American Indian Education with Appropriate and Authentic Methodology....Pages 159-170
Lesbian Youth and the “Not Girl” Gender: Explorations of Adolescent Lesbian Lives through Critical Life Story Research....Pages 171-183
Breaking the Hymen and Reclaiming the “Cherry”: Adolescent Language Use in Negotiations of Autonomy in a Sexuality Education Program....Pages 185-197
Disenfranchisement and Power: The Role of Teachers as Mediators in Citizenship Education Policy and Practice....Pages 199-210
Quantitative Approaches as a Bridge from the Invisible to the Visible: The Case of Basic Education Policy in a Disadvantaged Nation1....Pages 211-225
Methods and the Margins: Realigning the Center, A Postscript....Pages 227-231
Back Matter....Pages 233-271