Multicultural research : a reflective engagement with race, class, gender and sexual orientation

Abstract

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.