De-academizing early childhood research: Wanderings from aChicana/Latina feminist Researcher.
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Journal of Latinos and Education
Volume
10
Issue
4
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
2011
First Page
286
Last Page
298
Abstract
In this article, I frame critical questions about discourse and power when centering marginalized populations in research. This critical Chicana feminist analysis of early childhood research illuminates (a) the bifurcation of the academy and the comunidad, (b) voice as ilusión, (c) research as colonization, and (d) the United States' cultural invention of universal needs. Destrenzando (unbraiding and unraveling) research foregrounds and interweaves the personal, political, historical, and cultural into a messy text. In this messy text, the initial subject of our gaze is the participants, but it ultimately ricochets back to the researcher, our research methods, and to questions of (de)colonization.
Recommended Citation
Saavedra, C. M. (2011). De-academizing early childhood research: Wanderings from a Chicana/Latina feminist Researcher. Journal of Latinos and Education, 10(4), 286-298.