From center to margins : the importance of self-definition in research / edited by Diane S. Pollard and Olga M. Welch ; foreword by Christine E. Sleeter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pollard, Diane.

Welch, Olga M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Education (Higher).

African American women.

African American college teachers.

Minority women--Education (Higher)--United States.

Minority women.

Discrimination in higher education--United States.

Discrimination in higher education.

Marginality, Social--United States.

Marginality, Social.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In From Center to Margins, women educational researchers of color, trained in mainstream Euro-American traditions, interpret the experiences of those, including themselves, who are marginalized by these very traditions. Deliberately looking at research from within the margins rather than from the center, the contributors detail how their perspectives influence the way they frame questions for study, develop procedures to investigate them, and devise strategies for answering them. The contributors offer an alternative to the dominant perspective in educational research that uses its power to determine who shall be centered and who, marginalized. This book presents the margins, where women and other people of color reside intellectually, not as deficient areas from which we need to escape, but as legitimate sites where knowledge, useful to wider audiences, has been and will continue to be generated.

Contents:

Women of color and research : a historical and contemporary context / Diane S. Pollard

Making intellectual space : self-determination and indigenous research / Frances V. Rains

Reflections on the process of becoming an academician / Barbara K. Curry

Language, literacy and culture : intersections and implications / Sonia Nieto

The outsider within multicultural education : understanding the field from a marginalized viewpoint / Valerie Ooka Pang

Seeing with the cultural eye : different perspectives of African American teachers and researchers / Jacqueline Jordan Irvine

Response to papers on "from center to margins" : the importance of self-definition in research / Maxine Greene

Making the familiar strange : inclusion, exclusion and erasure : summarizing the philosophies of women researchers of color / Olga M. Welch.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791481721

0791481727

9781423780397

1423780396

OCLC:

70182921