1. The Idea, the Invitation and Chapter Themes Carl A. Grant 2. Reconstituting an Ethnography: What Post-Modernism Social Theory Does for the Study of Teacher Education Tom S. Popkewitz 3. Multiculture in the Making Elizabeth Ellsworth 4. I Was Born to Roll: Graduate School From the Margins Jennifer E. Obidah 5. Between Neo and Post: Critique and Transformation in Critical Educational Studies Michael W. Apple 6. Writing Gender Into Reading Research Donna E. Alvermann 7. Narrating My Life Mary Louise Gomez 8. Roots and Wings: Conceptual Underpinnings For Research and Contributions Related To Diversity Eugene E. Garcia 9. In Search of a Method For Liberating Education and Research: The Half (That) Has Not Been Told Joyce E. King 10. Finding My Life's Work Mildred J. Hudson 11. The Professional Is The Personal: Personal Identity and Research Agenda Michael C. Thornton 12. 'Funny, You Don't Look Puerto Rican', and Other Musings on Developing a Philosophical Orientation to Multicultural Education Research Sinai Nieto 13. Personal and Intellectual Motivation For Working From The Margin Carl A. Grant 14. The Educational Researcher as Critical Social Agent: Some Personal Reflections on Marxist Criticism in Postmodern De-Educational Climates Peter McLaren 15. Writing From The Heart Christine Sleeter 16. Research as Praxis: Unlearning Oppression and Research Journeys Beth Blue Swadener 17. Stumbling Toward Knowledge: Enacting and Embodying Qualitative Research Beth Graue and Becky Ropers-Huilman 18. Becoming a Researcher: It's the Trip Not the Destination and Studying the Monocultural Preservice Teachers Mary Lou Fuller 19. Circling Toward Research Reba Neukom Page

This is a book at the cutting edge of research on multiculturalism. With contributions from top American authors currently working in this area, the result is a text that not only dissects the multicultural issues facing education in the USA today, but also reveals the methods and procedures of research into this contentious area.