What Difference Does Research Make and for Whom?

Contents: Françoise Bodone: Introduction: Why Make a Difference? - Phil F. Carspecken: The Social Relevance of Critical Ethnography - Graham Hingangaroa Smith: Beyond Political Literacy: From Conscientization to Transformative Praxis - Mary C. Dalmau: Asking Powerful Questions: Seeking Powerful Action - Enora R. Brown: Decentering Dominant Discourses in Education: The Emancipatory Possibilities of Our Work - Jack Whitehead: Living Educational Theories and Multimedia Forms of Representation - Jerome Allender: The Practical and Scholarly Value of the Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices - Andrew Gitlin/Mary D. Burbank/Don Kauchak: The Struggle for Legitimate Knowledge: Teachers' Thinking on Research - Andy Hargreaves/Shawn Moore: Voice, Nostalgia, and Teachers' Experiences of Change - John Smyth: Policy Research and «Damaged Teachers»: Towards an Epistemologically Respectful Paradigm - Hafdís Gudjónsdóttir: Researching with Teachers: Making Responsive Professional Practice Visible (and Viable) - Sarah Fletcher: Research Mentoring: The Missing Link in Educational Research - Yolanda M. Wattsjohnson: Articulating Knowledge for Transformation - Lynn Butler-Kisber: The Potential of Artful Analysis and Portrayals in Qualitative Inquiry - Mutindi Mumbua Kiluva-Ndunda: Reciprocity in Research: A Retrospective Look at My Work with Kilome Women - Françoise Bodone: I Am, You Are, We Become: Sustained Relationality in Practice, Research, and Policy - Russell Bishop: Changing Power Relations in Education: Kaupapa Mäori Messages for «Mainstream» Education in Aotearoa/New Zealand - Françoise Bodone/Mary C. Dalmau: Acting in a World Unveiled.

The Editor: Françoise Bodone is an international independent scholar who received her Ph.D. in educational policy and leadership from the University of Oregon. Her interests include critical pedagogy as applied to research and classroom practices, cultural and social justice in education, and the potential of photography in educational research. She recently co-authored a chapter in the International Handbook of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices (2004), and published another in Teen Life in Europe (in press).