Multicultural research : a reflective engagement with race, class, gender and, sexual orientation / edited by Carl A. Grant.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grant, Carl A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multicultural education--Research--United States.

Multicultural education.

Multiculturalism--Research--United States.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia, PA : Falmer Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With contributions from leading American authors in the field of multicultural research, this text both dissects the multicultural issues facing education in the USA, and reveals the methods and procedures of research in this area.

This is a book at the cutting edge of research on multiculturalism. With contributions from top American authors currently working in this area, the result is a text that not only dissects the multicultural issues facing education in the USA today, but also reveals the methods and procedures of research into this contentious area. This is a book at the cutting edge of research on multiculturalism. With contributions from top American authors currently working in this area, the result is a text that not only dissects the multicultural issues facing education in the USA today, but also reveals the methods and procedures of research into this contentious area.

Contents:

Introduction - the idea, the invitation and chapter themes, Carl A. Grant; reconstituting an ethnography - what post-modernism social theory does for the study of teacher education, Tom S. Popkewitz; multiculture in the making, Elizabeth Ellsworth; I was born to roll - graduate school from the margins, Jennifer E. Obidah; between neo and post - critique and transformation in critical educational studies, Michael W. Apple; writing gender into reading research, Donna E. Alvermann; narrating my life, Mary Louise Gomez; roots and wings - conceptual underpinnings for research and contributions related to diversity, Eugene E. Garcia; in search of a method for liberating education and research - the half (that) has not been told, Joyce E. King; finding my life's work, Mildred J. Hudson; the professional is the personal - personal identity and research agenda, Michael C. Thornton; "funny, you don't look Puerto Rican" and other musings on developing a philosophical orientation to multicultural education research, Sinai Nieto; personal and intellectual motivation for working from the margin, Carl A. Grant; the educational researcher as critical social agent - some personal reflections on Marxist criticism in postmodern de-educational climates, Peter McLaren; writing from the heart, Christine Sleeter; research as praxis - unlearning oppression and research journeys, Beth Blue Swadener; stumbling toward knowledge - enacting and embodying qualitative research, Beth Graue and Becky Ropers-Huilman; becoming a researcher - its the trip not the destination and studying the monocultural preservice teachers, Mary Lou Fuller; circling toward research, Reba Neukon Page.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-135-70764-2

1-280-16429-8

0-203-98084-0

9786610164295

9780203980842

OCLC:

935227425