Table of Contents

Contents: Shirley R. Steinberg: Preface. What is critical about qualitative research? – Phil Francis Carspecken: Basic Concepts in Critical Methodological Theory: Action, Structure and System within a Communicative Pragmatics Framework – Donald Easton-Brooks: The Conceptual Context of Knowledge – Mirka Koro-Ljungberg: Methodology is Movement is Methodology – Carolyn M. Shields: Critical Advocacy Research: An Approach Whose Time has Come – Margaret Somerville: The Critical Power of Place – Madeline Fox/Michelle Fine: Circulating Critical Research: Reflections on Performance and Moving Inquiry into Action – P. L. Thomas/Renita Schmidt: All That Jazz: Doing and Writing CQR in a Material World – Gaile S. Cannella/Yvonna S. Lincoln: Deploying Qualitative Methods for Critical Social Purposes – Joe L. Kincheloe/Peter McLaren/Shirley R. Steinberg: Critical Theory, Critical Pedagogy, and Qualitative Research – Kenneth Tobin: Interpretive Approaches to Multi-Level, Multi-Method, Multi-Theoretic Research – Shirley R. Steinberg: Critical Cultural Studies Research: Bricolage in Action – David W. Jardine: A Hitherto Concealed Experience that Transcends Thinking from the Position of Subjectivity – Kathleen deMarrais: Asking Critical Questions of Philanthropy and its Impact on U.S. Educational Policy: Tracking the Money in School Reform – Pepi Leistyna: Maintaining a Vibrant Synergy among Theory, Qualitative Research, and Social Activism in this Ever-Changing Age of Globalization – Jon Austin: Enlightening the Stranger Within: (Re)viewing Critical Research From/On/In the Centre – Andrew Hickey: The Critical Aesthetic: Living a Critical Ethnography of the Everyday – Mairi McDermott/Athena Madan: Avoiding the Missionary (Dis)position: Research Relations and (Re)presentation – sj Miller: Flawed Visions of Democracy in the United States: Influences on Current Critical Social Justice Research – Missy Morton: Who Will Be Heard? Qualitative Research and Legal Decisions about Facilitated Communication – Marianne N. Bloch/Ko Eun Kim: Governing Young Children’s Learning through Educational Reform: A Poststructural Analysis of Discourses of Best Practice, Standards, and Quality – George J. Sefa Dei/Marlon Simmons: Writing Diasporic Indigeneity Through Critical Research and Social Method – Elizabeth McAdams Ducy/Laura M. Stough/M. Carolyn Clark: Choosing Agency in the Midst of Vulnerability: Using Critical Disability Theory to Examine a Disaster Narrative – Timothy J. Stanley: Excluded Narratives, Anti-racism and Historical Representation: Methodological Implications – Jessica Nina Lester: Researching the Discursive Function of Silence: A Reconsideration of the Normative Communication Patterns in the Talk of Children with Autism Labels – Tarquam McKenna/Davina B. Woods: An Indigenous Conversation - Artful Autoethnography - A Pre-colonized Collaborative Research Method? – Joe L. Kincheloe/Shirley R. Steinberg: Indigenous Knowledges in Education: Complexities, Dangers, and Profound Benefits – Ernest Morrell: Teachers as Critical Researchers: An Empowering Model for Urban Education – Amanda Benjamin: Listening in the Liminal: The In-between Spaces of Teaching Youth About Career and Adulthood – Greg S. Goodman/Walter Ullrich/Pedro Nava: Action Research for Critical Classroom and Community Change – Elizabeth B. Kozleski/Alfredo J. Artiles: Technical Assistance as Inquiry: Using Activity Theory Methods to Engage Equity in Educational Practice Communities – Victoria Perselli: Teaching in England: December 2010 – Claudia Sanchez/JoAnn Danelo Barbour: A Critical Approach to the Teaching and Learning of Critical Social Science at the College