Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice in Educational Research: Methods at the Margins Book

Introduction: The Not-Center? The Margins and Educational Research Rachelle Winkle-Wagner Debora Hinderliter Ortloff Cheryl A. Hunter 1

Part I Theory

The Politics of Knowledge: What an Examination of the Margins Can Offer Barbara Dennis 15

1 On the Tasks of the Critical Educational Scholar/Activist Michael W. Apple 21

2 Making Sense of the Call for Scientifically Based Research in Education Ginette Delandshere 35

3 Limits to Knowledge with Existential Significance: An Outline for the Exploration of Post-secular Spirituality of Relevance to Qualitative Research Phil Francis Carspecken 47

4 Theory of the Margins: Liberating Research in Education Barbara Dennis 63

Part II Methodology

Uncloaking Epistemologies through Methodology Adrea Lawrence 79

5 Researching as if Place Mattered: Toward a Methodology of Emplacement Joshua Hunter 85

6 Twisted Time: The Educative Chronologies of American Indian History Donald Warren 97

7 Researching Hispanic Undergraduates: Conceptual and Methodological Unease Amaury Nora 111

8 Get Real: The Process of Validating Research across Racial Lines Rachelle Winkle-Wagner 127

Part III Exemplars

Engaging the Margins: Working Toward a Methodology of Empowerment Joshua Hunter 141

9 Educating the "Savage" and "Civilized": Santa Clara Pueblo Indians at the 1904 St. Louis Expo Adrea Lawrence 147

10 Intimately Biased: Creating Purposeful Research in American Indian Education with Appropriate and Authentic Methodology Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz 159

11 Lesbian Youth and the "Not Girl" Gender: Explorations of Adolescent Lesbian Lives through Critical Life Story Research Elizabethe C. Payne 171

12Breaking the Hymen and Reclaiming the "Cherry": Adolescent Language Use in Negotiations of Autonomy in a Sexuality Education Program Cheryl A. Hunter 185

13 Disenfranchisement and Power: The Role of Teachers as Mediators in Citizenship Education Policy and Practice Debora Hinderliter Ortloff 199

14 Quantitative Approaches as a Bridge from the Invisible to the Visible: The Case of Basic Education Policy in a Disadvantaged Nation Aki Yonehara 211

Methods and the Margins: Realigning the Center, A Postscript Debora Hinderliter Ortloff Cheryl A. Hunter Rachelle Winkle-Wagner 227

References 233

Index 257