Writing Educational Biography: Explorations in Qualitative Research

by Kridel,Craig

• ISBN13: 9780815322948
• ISBN10: 0815322941
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection examines the many influences of biographical inquiry in education and discusses methodological issues from the perspective of veteran and novice biographers. Contributors underscore the documentary, interpretive, and literary concerns of biographical and archival work, and their essays reveal the complexity, distinctiveness, and sense of exploration of scholarly endeavors.

Author Biography

Lorin W. Anderson is the Distinguished Carolina Professor of Education at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. William Ayers is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois, Chicago and Co-chair of the Small Schools Workshop, Chicago. Robert V. Bullough, Jr. is Professor of Educational Studies at the University of Utah. D. Jean Clandinin is Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Geraldine Joncich Clifford is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. F. Michael Connelly is Professor of Education and Director of the Joint Centre for Teacher Development at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the University of Toronto. Blanche Wiesen Cook is Professor of History and Women's Studies at John Jay College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Louise DeSalvo is Professor of English at Hunter College. Edwin C. Epps is Co-director of the South Carolina Writing Project at the University of South Carolina, Spartanburg. Barbara Finkelstein is Professor of Education in the Department of Educational Policy, Planning, and Administration at the University of Maryland, College Park. Corrine E. Glesne is an Associate Professor of Education and Associate Dean of the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont. Herbert J. Hartsook is Curator of the Modern Political Collection, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia. Thomas B. Horton is an Instructor of History at The Porter-Gaud School, Charleston, South Carolina. Philo Hutcheson is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Craig Kridel is Professor of Curriculum and Foundations and Curator of the Museum of Education at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Janet L. Miller is Professor of Education in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at National-Louis University. Anne E. Pautz is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Oklahoma State University. William F. Pinar is the St. Bernard Parish Alumni Endowed Professor of Education at Louisiana State University. Tony Reid is Principal of the Hansen Elementary School in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Katherine C. Reynolds is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Louis M. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Education at Washington University. Lynda Anderson Smith is a District Administrator in the Pitt County Schools, Greenville, NC. Wayne J. Urban is the Regents' Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Professor of History at Georgia State University. Linda C. Wagner-Martin is the Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Alan Wieder is an Associate Professor of Educational Foundations at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	3	(10)
Part One Qualitative Research and Educational Biography	13	(60)
Chapter One Musings on Life Writing: Biography and Case Studies in Teacher Education	19	(14)
Robert V. Bullough, Jr.
Chapter Two Ethnography with a Biographic Eye	33	(12)
Corrine E. Glesne
Chapter Three Revealing Human Agency: The Uses of Biography in the Study of Educational History	45	(16)
Barbara Finkelstein
Chapter Four Construction Scars: Autobiographical Voice in Biography	61	(12)
William F. Pinar
Anne E. Pautz
Part Two Methodological Issues and Biographical Research	73	(48)
Chapter Five The Issue of Subject: A Critical Connection	79	(10)
Blanche Wiesen Cook
Chapter Six The Issue of Gender: Continuing Problems in Biography	89	(14)
Linda C. Wagner-Martin
Chapter Seven Black Subject, White Biographer	103	(10)
Wayne J. Urban
Chapter Eight Trust and Memory: Explorations in Oral History and Biography	113	(8)
Alan Wieder
Part Three Archival Research and Educational Biography	121	(50)
Chapter Nine Unique Resources: Research in Archival Collections	127	(12)
Herbert J. Hartsook
Chapter Ten Fair Use Issues in Archival and Biographical Research	139	(8)
Philo Hutcheson
Chapter Eleven The Historical Recovery of Edyth Astrid Ferris	147	(10)
Geraldine Joncich Clifford
Chapter Twelve On Becoming an Archivist and Biographer	157	(14)
Louis M. Smith
Part Four Educational Biography as Dissertation Research	171	(48)
Chapter Thirteen Finding Facts, Telling Truths, Achieving Art	177	(10)
Katherine C. Reynolds
Chapter Fourteen Willing Biographer, Unwilling Subject	187	(8)
Tony Reid
Chapter Fifteen The Biographer's Relationship with Her Subject	195	(6)
Lynda Anderson Smith
Chapter Sixteen A Search for Prose That Recreates the Past	201	(10)
Thomas B. Horton
Chapter Seventeen Is It Fiction or Biography?	211	(8)
Edwin C. Epps
Part Five Implications for the Field of Education	219	(46)
Chapter Eighteen Biography, Education and Questions of the Private Voice	225	(10)
Janet L. Miller
Chapter Nineteen I Search, You Search, We All Search: Biography and the Public Voice	235	(10)
William Ayers
Chapter Twenty Asking Questions About Telling Stories	245	(10)
D. Jean Clandinin
F. Michael Connelly
Chapter Twenty One Inquiry, Data and Understanding: A Search for Meaning in Educational Research	255	(10)
Lorin W. Anderson
Epilogue	265	(4)
Advice to Aspiring Educational Biographers	269	(4)
Louise DeSalvo
Bibliography	273	(20)
Contributors	293	(4)
Index	297