Briding the gap between theory and practice in educational research : Methods at the margins
/ Wagner,Rachelle Winkle
- New York Palgarve MacMillan 2009
- 271 p
1. Part 1: Theory 2. On the tasks of the critical educational scholar/activist 3. Making sense of the casas for scientifically based research in education 4. Limits to knowledge with existential significance: an outline for the exploration of post-secular spirituality of relevance to qualitative research 5. Theory of the margins: liberating research in education 6. Part 2: Methodology 7. Researching as if place mattered: toward methodology of emplacement 8. Twisted time: the education chronologies of American Indian history 9. Researching Hispanic undergraduates; conceptual and methodological unease 10. Get real: the process of validating research across racial lines 11. Part 3: exemplars 12. Educating the savage and civilized: Santa Clara Pueblo Indians at the 1904 St. Louis Expo 13. Intimately biased: creating purposeful research in American Indian education with appropriate and authentic methodology 14. Lesbian youth and the “not girl” gender: explorations of adolescent lesbian libes through critical life story research 15. Breaking the hymen and reclaiming the “cherry”: adolescent language use in negotiations of autonomy in a sexuality education program 16. Disenfranchisement and power: the role of teachers as mediators in citizenship education policy and practice 17. Quantitative approaches as a bridge from the invisible to the visible: the case of basic education policy in a disadvantage nation