ABSTRACT
Writing this chapter was a daunting experience. To begin with, it meant acknowledging that I was at a point in life where a retrospective examination of my work is appropriate even though I spend my time thinking about today and tomorrow andÐuntil nowÐ I've not given yesterday the reflection it deserves. Finally, there was the question of making observations that others might find either interesting or useful since there is no guarantee that activities which I found pleasing will necessarily be important to others. Thus when Carl Grant invited me to take on this task, I acknowledged how flattered I was to be asked, and began searching for perspectives to make sense of the multicultural education research activities in which I've participated. I discovered two perspectives I would like to shareÐboth interrelated and both productive of insights into the process of multicultural education research as I've experienced it. These perspectives are: The influences of research on the researcher, and the nature and effect of my research. In other words, what did I do and why did I do it.
