Year: 2013
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: : Significantly due to the institutional separation of theory and practice, the gap between academia and society continues to broaden, arguably pointing towards the failure of traditional educational research and, to an extent, the university’s neglect to authenticate alternate epistemologies and methodologies that seek to elicit mobilization, activism, and reform. The present state of public education within the context of equal access to all poses a great sociological challenge to research. How can alternate epistemologies in urban educational research elicit mobilization and change? Theoretical Framework We recognize that mainstream research, based on the integrationist perspective which emphasized consensus, assimilation, and the legitimacy of societal institutions, has obscured and distorted the significant historical role which class conflict and group interests have taken in shaping our existence as a people to the present moment. Teresa Córdova (as cited in Mora and Diaz, 2003, p. 25) Epistemologically research seeks to answer questions that are intertwined with societal
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W222165212