This "Conversation Currents" features JoBeth Allen and Valerie Kinloch discussing their thoughts and experiences working with families and communities. Allen bases her comments on the belief that programs have to be adaptable to many different constituencies and demographics, and so must be recreated every year with every teacher and…

Discusses the shifting educational research culture. Notes that the very definitions of "research" and "researcher" have been challenged. Discusses composing research communities, the politics of methodology, written discourse communities, and composing a research agenda. (RS)