Multiple and Intersecting Identities in Qualitative Research

ISBN-13: 9780805828757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 162 str.

Betty Merchant; Arlette I. Willis

Opis

This volume extends the discourse on the role of cultural knowledge in qualitative research, especially research conducted by women of colour within their own community. Each author reports on her attempts to conceptualize herself as a researcher whilst retaining her own cultural connectedness.

Recenzje

"[This] fresh, authentic, and important collection of narratives exploring the web of connections between personal identities and scholarly inquiries....makes a significant contribution to an understanding of qualitative research through an artful grappling with complex methodological issues....This is a complex text and a daring work as each author tells her own story while telling those of her participants....The writing style of each chapter is inviting and engaging so that the author brings along the reader in a search for deeper understanding."
—The Journal of Higher Education

"The reading was an exciting experience....The explicit autobiographical presence and its connections with larger cultural context in academia is the strength of the book....Another strength of the book is its discussion about the language of research....I recommend the book for methodological purposes to those who want to develop their sensitiveness as a researcher, to learn about the ethical dilemmas when studying people from other cultures and facing the problem of writing to the audience of 'phallocentric discourses.'"
—Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice

"I recommend the book for methodological purposes to those who want to develop their sensitiveness as a researcher.... the book is useful for everyone of us who need more insight into the multiple identities of people in academia."
—Teachers and Teaching, Theory and Practice

"We invite you to learn the songs of our souls--songs for recalling the past, altering the present, and transforming the future. In this book, we become subjects of our own lives and research within and outside the academy."
—Arlette Ingram Willis, Betty Merchant
From the Introduction

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. A.I. Willis, B.M. Merchant, Introduction. B.M. Merchant, Negotiating the Boundaries and Sometimes Missing the Mark: A White Researcher and a Mexican American Research Assistant. M. Zurita, La Mojada y el Coyote: Experiences of a Wetback Researcher. L.N. Chaudhry, "You Should Know What's Right for Me!": A Hybrid's Struggle to Define Empowerment for Critical Feminist Research in Education. A.I. Willis, An African American Female Researcher's Journey: Epistemological, Conceptual, and Methodological Concerns. A. Henry, Looking Two Ways: Identity, Research, and Praxis in the Caribbean Community. B. Mehra, Research on Personal Quest?: Dilemmas in Studying My Own Kind. A.D. Enos, A Landscape With Multiple Views: Research in Pueblo Communities. J.H. Kim, Asian Americans: Refuting the Myth, Changing Faces. A.I. Willis, B.M. Merchant, Afterword.

O autorze

Betty Merchant (Edited by) ,  Arlette Ingram Willis (Edited by)