Decolonizing Research in Cross-Cultural Contexts
Critical Personal Narratives
Will be published approx. on 2. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
297 pages
978-0-7914-5980-5 (ISBN)
Description
International scholars share their experiences with the challenges inherent in representing indigenous cultures and decolonizing cross-cultural research.
Winner of the 2005 Outstanding Narrative Research Book presented by the Narrative Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association
Drawing from their experiences in cross-cultural research, scholars from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the United Kingdom, and North America discuss their attempts to reclaim and reposition the representation of indigenous cultures in their work. They raise critical questions that resist the centrality of the English language as a medium of research and of the Western academy as the locus for knowledge production, reframe cross-cultural research agendas to include ways of knowing that have been excluded all too often, and offer creative ways of using cross-cultural collaboration.
Winner of the 2005 Outstanding Narrative Research Book presented by the Narrative Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association
Drawing from their experiences in cross-cultural research, scholars from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the United Kingdom, and North America discuss their attempts to reclaim and reposition the representation of indigenous cultures in their work. They raise critical questions that resist the centrality of the English language as a medium of research and of the Western academy as the locus for knowledge production, reframe cross-cultural research agendas to include ways of knowing that have been excluded all too often, and offer creative ways of using cross-cultural collaboration.
Reviews / Votes
"Work that explores decolonialism is absolutely needed. The strengths of this book include coverage of general postcolonial issues; the multiple and traveling positions, identities, and subjectivities that are experienced by postcolonial scholars; and the possibilities for reconceptualizing research as a movement toward decolonialism." - Gaile S. Cannella, coauthor of Childhood and Post-Colonization: Power, Education, and Contemporary Practice"The authors make a number of major points about the nature of research, the subtle pervasiveness of dominance and power in education and educational settings, and the importance of multiple voices in ethnographic and qualitative research." - Frank C. Worrell, University of California at Berkeley
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-5980-5 (9780791459805)
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Persons
Kagendo Mutua is Assistant Professor of Special Education at The University of Alabama. Beth Blue Swadener is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University.
Content
FOREWORD: Decolonizing Research in Cross-Cultural Contexts: Issues of Voice and Power
LOURDES DIAZ SOTO
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
KAGENDO MUTUA, BETH BLUE SWADENER
PART I: Engaging/Performing Theories of Decolonizing Research
1. Dilemmas of an Indigenous Academic: A Native Hawaiian Story
JULIE KAOMEA
2. Silent Screams: Deconstructing (Academia) the Insider/Outsider Indigenous Researcher Positionalities
MIRYAM ESPINOSA-DULANTO
3. Performing Colonial and Postcolonial Science in India: Reenacting and Replaying Themes in the United States
GEETA VERMA
4. Always Already Colonizer/Colonized: White Australian Wanderings
LISA J. CARY
PART II: Critical Personal Narratives on Decolonizing Research Methodologies
5. "Tell me who you are": Problematizing the Construction and Positionalities of "Insider"/"Outsider" of a "Native" Ethnographer in a Postcolonial Context
DUDU JANKIE
6. Multiple Layers of a Researcher's Identity: Uncovering Asian American Voices
SUSAN MATOBA ADLER
7. Decolonizing Research on Gender Disparity in Education in Niger: Complexities of Language, Culture, and Homecoming
HAOUA M. HAMZA
8. Education Research with Philippine Communities in Greece: Intricacies and Possibilities
LEODINITO Y. CANETE
PART III: Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Decolonizing Research
9. Fall from Grace? Reflecting on Early Childhood Education While Decolonizing Intercultural Friendships from Kindergarten to University and Prison
CYNTHIA A BECKETT, DENISE PROUD
10. Listening to Voices in the Village: Collaborating through Data Chains
JOHN PRYOR, JOSEPH GHARTEY AMPIAH
11. Ripple Effects: Fostering Genuine International Collaboration
VILMA SEEBERG, HAIYAN QIANG
PART IV: Complicating "Decolonizing" Education and Research: Challenges and [Im]possibilities
12. [Re]Anglicizing the Kids: Contradictions of Classroom Discourse in Post-Apartheid South Africa
BEKISIZWE S. NDIMANDE
13. (Re)conceptualizing Language Advocacy: Weaving a Postmodern Mestizaje Image of Language
ELLEN DEMAS, CINTHYA M. SAAVEDRA
14. An Indigenous Perspective on Self-Determination
KATHRYN MANUELITO
AFTERWORD
BETH BLUE SWADENER, KAGENDO MUTUA
EPILOGUE
CARLOS OVANDO
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
LOURDES DIAZ SOTO
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
KAGENDO MUTUA, BETH BLUE SWADENER
PART I: Engaging/Performing Theories of Decolonizing Research
1. Dilemmas of an Indigenous Academic: A Native Hawaiian Story
JULIE KAOMEA
2. Silent Screams: Deconstructing (Academia) the Insider/Outsider Indigenous Researcher Positionalities
MIRYAM ESPINOSA-DULANTO
3. Performing Colonial and Postcolonial Science in India: Reenacting and Replaying Themes in the United States
GEETA VERMA
4. Always Already Colonizer/Colonized: White Australian Wanderings
LISA J. CARY
PART II: Critical Personal Narratives on Decolonizing Research Methodologies
5. "Tell me who you are": Problematizing the Construction and Positionalities of "Insider"/"Outsider" of a "Native" Ethnographer in a Postcolonial Context
DUDU JANKIE
6. Multiple Layers of a Researcher's Identity: Uncovering Asian American Voices
SUSAN MATOBA ADLER
7. Decolonizing Research on Gender Disparity in Education in Niger: Complexities of Language, Culture, and Homecoming
HAOUA M. HAMZA
8. Education Research with Philippine Communities in Greece: Intricacies and Possibilities
LEODINITO Y. CANETE
PART III: Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Decolonizing Research
9. Fall from Grace? Reflecting on Early Childhood Education While Decolonizing Intercultural Friendships from Kindergarten to University and Prison
CYNTHIA A BECKETT, DENISE PROUD
10. Listening to Voices in the Village: Collaborating through Data Chains
JOHN PRYOR, JOSEPH GHARTEY AMPIAH
11. Ripple Effects: Fostering Genuine International Collaboration
VILMA SEEBERG, HAIYAN QIANG
PART IV: Complicating "Decolonizing" Education and Research: Challenges and [Im]possibilities
12. [Re]Anglicizing the Kids: Contradictions of Classroom Discourse in Post-Apartheid South Africa
BEKISIZWE S. NDIMANDE
13. (Re)conceptualizing Language Advocacy: Weaving a Postmodern Mestizaje Image of Language
ELLEN DEMAS, CINTHYA M. SAAVEDRA
14. An Indigenous Perspective on Self-Determination
KATHRYN MANUELITO
AFTERWORD
BETH BLUE SWADENER, KAGENDO MUTUA
EPILOGUE
CARLOS OVANDO
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX