Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-256) and index.

On the tasks of the critical educational scholar-activist / Michael W. Apple -- Making sense of the call for scientifically based research in education / Ginette Delandshere -- Limits to knowledge with existential significance : an outline for the exploration of post-secular spirituality of relevance to qualitative research / Phil Francis Carspecken -- Theory of the margins : liberating research in education / Barbara Dennis -- Researching as if place mattered : toward a methodology of emplacement / Joshua Hunter -- Twisted time : the educative chronologies of American Indian history / Donald Warren -- Researching Hispanic undergraduates : conceptual and methodological unease / Amaury Nora -- Get real : the process of validating research across racial lines / Rachelle Winkle-Wagner -- Educating the "savage" and "civilized" : Santa Clara Pueblo Indians at the 1904 St. Louis Expo / Adrea Lawrence -- Intimately biased : creating purposeful research in American Indian education with appropriate and authentic methodology / Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz -- Lesbian youth and the "not girl" gender : explorations of adolescent lesbian lives through critical life story research / Elizabethe C. Payne -- Breaking the hymen and reclaiming the "cherry" : adolescent language use in negotiations of autonomy in a sexuality education program / Cheryl A. Hunter -- Disenfranchisement and power : the role of teachers as mediators in citizenship education policy and practice / Debora Hinderliter Ortloff -- Quantitative approaches as a bridge from the invisible to the visible : the case of basic education policy in a disadvantaged nation / Aki Yonehara.