Full Description
As teachers, education policymakers and school managers seek to meet the needs of students from cultures and language backgrounds different from the dominant majority's, research needs to reflect the perspectives of the students themselves and of their parents and teachers, while taking account of the broader socio-political context. This book brings together research conducted in Scotland, Australia, Canada, Norway, Italy, Ghana and Pakistan, which addresses the ethical conduct of education research in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts.The relationship between researched and researcher is crucial, but it can be problematic when the researchers are from the dominant group and not the groups whose experiences they aspire to understand. These authors highlight the challenges of researching in culturally and ethnically diverse contexts, and describe innovative approaches such a mapping, shadowing and photography that give agency to the children who are being researched, rather than to the researchers.The book is of interest to academics and to classroom teachers researching their own practice, and also to education students and social science researchers working in culturally diverse contexts.
Contents
CONTENTSapproach in a study of bilingual teachers, by Joke Dewilde; 2. Power and knowledge in research with immigrant teachers: Questioning the insider/outsider dichotomy, by Clea Schmidt; 3. Unsettling truths: Poststructural ethnography as a tool to trouble schooling exclusions, by Kathryn Edgeworth; 4. Being a socio-professional insider-researcher in Pakistan: Possibilities and challenges for educational research, by Saeeda Shah; 5. Overcoming barriers in researching diversity, by Geri Smyth; 6. Researcher as cartographer: Mapping the experiences of culturally diverse research participants, by Ninetta Santoro; 7. Participatory action research in a high school drama club: A catalyst for change among English language learners in Canada, by Antoinette Gagne and Stephanie Soto Gordon; 8. Children's agency in research: Does photography empower participants?, by Giovanna Fassetta
