From Center to Margins : The Importance of Self-Definition in Research

Considers perspectives from a diverse group of women educational researchers of color who center their discussion within the margins rather than from the center. 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 Margin : 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. Edited By Diane S. Pollard And Olga M. Welch ; Foreword By Christine E. Sleeter. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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. 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 of the process of becoming an academician / Barbara 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. Although Lani Guinier was describing her experience as an African American woman when she was a student at Yale Law School in the 1970s, her words still resonate with women researchers of color in academe some 30 years later.