a reflective engagement with race, class, gender and, sexual orientation /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Carl A. Grant.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Philadelphia, PA :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Falmer Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1999.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (vii, 282 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Idea, the Invitation, and Chapter Themes; The Idea; The Invitation; The Themes; Systems of Reasoning; Power in Relationships; Ideology in Response to Ethnicity and Issues of Social Justice; Involvement in Struggles and Forming Alliances; Methods and Procedures; Conclusion; References; 2 Reconstituting Ethnography: Social Exclusion, Post-modern Social Theory, and the Study of Teacher Education; Teach for America: Who the Book Is About; Constructing an Ethnography: What Do I Mean by Power?
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8 Roots and Wings: Conceptual Underpinnings for Research and Contributions Related to DiversityIntroduction; The Personas; Eugene; Gene; Gino; The 'Hispanic' Debate; It Doesn't Have to Be Either/Or; The Contribution; References; 9 In Search of a Method for Liberating Education and Research: The Half (That) Has Not Been Told; Groundings; From Collective Cultural Memory to Historical Consciousness and Liberating Modes of Inquiry; The Deciphering Praxis of Black Studies; Education and Research: Deadly Weapons or Tools for Liberation?
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Knowledge As the Effects of Power: My Post-modern SensitivityPedagogical Discourses As Principles of Inclusion/Exclusion: An Example; Reconstructing a Biography; Thinking about Data and Writing Narratives: Language and Power; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 Multiculture in the Making; Grad School in the War Years; Dissertating in the (White) Women's Movement; Gender Almost Meets Race in My Dissertation; Gender Almost Loses Race in My Teaching; Using Post-modernism to Break the Logics of Sameness; Using Post-modernism as an Educator.
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Status of Gender in Reading ResearchThe Story Begins; Choices I Have Made; Interpretive Sources; Setting and Participants; Researchers' Roles and Procedures; Findings; A New Way of Thinking about Gender/Power; What I Hope to Accomplish; Note; References; 7 Narrating My Life; Aunt Stella Lavin's, Winter 1958; Grandma and Grandpa Butler's, Christmas Day, 1958; Childhood Memories; Table Settings, and More; Becoming, Away from Home; Becoming a Teacher; Telling Stories about Myself; What Now?; Stories for Teaching; Reflections on Writing about Oneself and One's Family; Notes; References.
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That's Why I Think in Terms of 'Multiculture' and not 'Multicultural'References; 4 Born to Roll: Graduate School from the Margins; Graduate Education; Homegrown Wisdom and Intellect; Wary of Being Called on to Know; Chosen; Marginalized: A Public Redefinition of Self; Liberation and Transformation; A Final Note About Being Born to Roll; A Story; References; 5 Between Neo and Post: Critique and Transformation in Critical Educational Studies; Memory and Experience; Education and Cheap French Fries; Postscript; Notes; References; 6 Writing Gender into Reading Research.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This is a book at the cutting edge of research on multiculturalism. With contributions from top American authors currently working in this area, the result is a text that not only dissects the multicultural issues facing education in the USA today, but also reveals the methods and procedures of research into this contentious area.
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Title
Multicultural research.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Multicultural education-- Research-- United States.