Considers perspectives from a diverse group of women educational researchers of color who center their discussion within the margins rather than from the center.
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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword
Christine E. Sleeter
Introduction. Women Researchers of Color: Have We Come a Long Way
Olga M. Welch and Diane S. Pollard
1. Women of Color and Research: A Historical and Contemporary Context
Diane S. Pollard
2. Making Intellectual Space: Self-determination and Indigenous Research
Frances V. Rains
3. Reflections on the Process of Becoming an Academician
Barbara Curry
4. Language, Literacy and Culture: Intersections and Implications
Sonia Nieto
5. The Outsider within Multicultural Education: Understanding the Field from a Marginalized Viewpoint
Valerie Ooka Pang
6. Seeing with the Cultural Eye: Different Perspectives of African American Teachers and Researchers
Jacqueline Jordan Irvine
7. Response to Papers on From Center to Margin: The Importance of Self-definition in Research
Maxine Greene
8. Making the Familiar Strange: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Erasure: Summarizing the Philosophies of Women Researchers of Color
Olga M. Welch
Contributors
Index
Circa l’autore
Christine E. Sleeter is Professor and Planning Faculty Member at California State University–Monterey Bay. She is co-editor (with Peter L. Mc Laren) of Multicultural Education, Critical Pedagogy, and the Politics of Difference and (with Joseph M. Larkin) Developing Multicultural Teacher Education Curricula; and editor of Empowerment through Multicultural Education, all published by SUNY Press. She is co-author (with C.A. Grant) of Turning on Learning; Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class and Gender; and After the School Bell Rings; and author of Keepers of the American Dream: Multicultural Education and Staff Development.