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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828805403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-7914-8172-7

1-4237-8039-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (156 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PollardDiane

WelchOlga M

Disciplina

370/.7/2

Soggetti

African American women - Education (Higher)

African American college teachers

Minority women - Education (Higher) - United States

Discrimination in higher education - United States

Marginality, Social - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.