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