學術專長
1、Ethnography of childhood, focusing on children and their families’
involvement in participatory community-based projects to improve
their lives and the lives of their neighborhoods.
2、Sociology of education, focusing on urban community educational
reform & multiculturalism in the United States; Urban education with
a focus on how community activism shapes school-community relations
for children and their families.
3、 Qualitative & feminist research methods and methodology, focusing
on interpretive ethnography of youth, urban schooling and community
activism; participatory action research.
4、Philosophy of education, focusing on critical and feminist
pedagogy, and the philosophy of multiculturalism.
5、 Cultural studies, focusing on cinematic representations of
childhood and what it takes to understand across geo-political,
cultural, ideological and intellectual boundaries. |