Barbara Dennis, Indiana University, USAMichael Apple, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAGinette Delandshere, Indiana University, USAPhil Carspecken, Indiana University, USAAdrea Lawrence, American University, USAJoshua Hunter, Cleveland, Ohio, USADonald Warren, Indiana University, USAAmaury Nora, University of Houston, USATarajean Yazzie-Mintz, Indiana University, USAElizabethe Payne, Syracuse University, USAAki Yonehara, Meiji University, Japan

This book provides innovative and multidisciplinary ways of thinking about educational processes, using quantitative and qualitative methodologies

The Not-Centre: The Margins and Educational Research; R.Winkle-Wagner PART I: THEORY The Politics of Knowledge: What an Examination of the Margins Can Offer; B.Dennis On the Tasks of the Critical Educational Scholar/Activist; M.Apple Making Sense of the Call for Scientifically Based Research in Education; G.Delandshere Playing at the Margins: Methodological Innovations With a Purpose; P.Carspecken Theory of the Margins: Liberating Research in Education; B.Dennis PART II: METHODOLOGY Uncloaking Epistemologies through Methodology; A.Lawrence Research as if Place Mattered: Towards a Methodology of Emplacement; J.Hunter Twisted Time: The Educative Chronologies of American Indian History; D.Warren Researching Hispanic Undergraduates: Conceptual and Methodological Unease; A.Nora Cross-racial Validation: The Process of Validating Research Across Racial Lines; R.Winkle-Wagner PART III: EXEMPLARS Engaging the Margins: Working Toward a Methodology of Empowerment; J.Hunter Educating the 'Savage' and 'Civilized': Santa Clara Pueblo Indians at the 1904 St. Louis Expo; A.Lawrence 'Intimately Biased': Creating Purposeful Research in American Indian Education with Appropriate and Authentic Methodology; T.Yazzie-Mintz Lesbian Youth and the 'Not Girl' Gender: Explorations of Adolescent Lesbian Lives through Critical Life Story Research; E.Payne Breaking the Hymen and Reclaiming the 'Cherry': Adolescent Language Use in Negotiations of Autonomy in a Sexuality Education Program; C.A.Hunter Citizenship Education in the Global Era; D.Hinderliter Ortloff Quantitative Approaches as a Bridge from the Invisible to the Visible: The Case of Basic Education Policy in a Disadvantaged Nation; A.Yonehara

This book provides new ways of thinking about educational processes, using quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Ultimately, it aims at expanding knowledge itself - altering the centre by allowing the margins to inform it - allowing it to be extended to include those ways of knowing that have historically been unexplored or ignored.