From Center to Margins

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From Center to Margins
The Importance of Self-Definition in Research

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Diane S. Pollard - Editor
Olga M. Welch - Editor
Christine E. Sleeter - Foreword by

Price: $95.00
Hardcover - 154 pages

Release Date: May 2006

ISBN10: 0-7914-6771-6
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6771-8

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 154 pages

Release Date: May 2006

ISBN10: 0-7914-6772-4
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6772-5

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Summary

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.

“The contributors speak to the ways in which women researchers of color and their research questions and approaches are so often marginalized in the academy. Their experiences are important for the field to understand and learn from in order to enrich our approaches to educational research.” — Lee Anne Bell, coeditor of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook

“With the rising global entrance of ‘significant others’ into the academy, this is a book that will find a home and resonate with a significant number of young and emerging scholars.” — LaRuth Gray, New York University

Contributors include Barbara K. Curry, Maxine Greene, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Sonia Nieto, Valerie Ooka Pang, Diane S. Pollard, Frances V. Rains, Christine E. Sleeter, and Olga M. Welch.

Diane S. Pollard is Professor Emerita of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. She is the coeditor (with Cheryl S. Ajirotutu) of African-Centered Schooling in Theory and Practice. Olga M. Welch is Professor and Dean of the School of Education at Duquesne University and the coauthor (with Carolyn R. Hodges) of Standing Outside on the Inside: Black Adolescents and the Construction of Academic Identity, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

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

Related Subjects

African American Studies
Education
Multicultural Education

44915/44916(LC/JB/MC)

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