Daredevil Research

The Editors: Nicholas B. Paley teaches courses in curriculum and education at George Washington University. His recent book Finding Art’s Place: Experiments in Contemporary Education and Culture, examines three artistic/educational experiments outside of school settings and the configurations of art in the lives of urban youth.Janice A. Jipson teaches courses in educational foundations and research at Carroll College. Her collaboratively authored book, Repositioning Feminism and Education: Perspectives on Educating for Social Change, focuses on the experiences of five teacher-researchers facing dilemmas of imposition in their research and teaching.

«The writing in this book is not just about a kind of cultural analysis; it is literary, artistic, poetic; it presents an extraordinary model of post-positivist medium and method. It is an excellent choice for social science research courses, encouraging students to experiment with both form and content. Books about «qualitative» research are typically quite tedious. They spend an inordinate amount of time justifying their existence, usually in positivist terms. This book talks the talk and walks the walk. Even when presenting its theoretical framework, its author’s use of language is sparkling, even dazzling. The array of verbs, nouns and adjectives in the first, introductory chapter is quite delightful. I could not have imagined there were so many different ways to describe and define this kind of research, to deconstruct and, simultaneously, to reconstruct its meanings and metaphors.» (Kathleen Casey, University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

• Contents: Janice Jipson/Nicholas Paley: Daredevil Research: Re-creating Analytic Practice: An Introduction – Karen Anijar: To Go Where No Woman Has Wanted to Go Before: Lost in the Final Frontier – Deb Casey: «Drop-off/Pick-up Panic» – Joan Montgomery Halford: «Sonic Day» – Gunilla Holm: Teenage Motherhood: Public Posing and Private Thoughts – Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones/Thomas E. Barone: Interrupting the Sign: The Aesthetics of Research Texts – Janice Jipson/Nicholas Paley: Curriculum and Its Unconscious – Chelsea Bailey: A Place from Which to Speak: Stories of Memory, Crisis and Struggle from the Preschool Classroom – Janice Jipson/Bruce Wilson: That dialogue at Night – Nicholas Paley: Neither Literal nor Conceptual – Janice Jipson/Petra Munro: Deconstructing Wo/Mentoring: Diving into the Abyss – Janice Jipson/Nicholas Paley: Method: Who Am I?