Life stories : exploring issues in educational history through biography / edited by Linda C. Morice and Laurel Puchner (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morice, Linda C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Biographical methods.

Education.

Education--History--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Life Stories: Exploring Issues in Educational History Through Biography consists of 13 essays, each of which offers perspective on one of four key questions that have long drawn scholarly attention: What should schools teach? Who gets to decide? How should educators adapt to a changing world to provide opportunity for all students? How should educators' experiences be interpreted for future audiences?The book is written to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the International Society for Educational Biography and its journal, Vitae Scholasticae. All of the essays have appeared in the journal, and they are set in a variety of educational environments that span 174 years. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the important contributions that biography can make to educational history.Life Stories would be of interest to educational biographers and historians for use in their own scholarly work. Instructors might also consider assigning Life Stories as a required text in educational history courses.

Contents:

Preface / Linda C. Morice and Laurel Puchner

Introduction / Linda C. Morice and Laurel Puchner

Part I. The scope and nature of education

Chapter 1. Racially integrated education: The antebellum thought of mary ann shadd cary and frederick douglass / Carol B. Conaway

Chapter 2. Company schooling in the new south: Lawrence peter hollis and the parker mill schools in south carolina / Bart Dredge

Chapter 3. Dreams deferred: White reaction to langston hughes' depression-era educational tour of the south / Bart Dredge and Cayce Tabor

Part II. Advancing an educational agenda

Chapter 4. Education and politics in texas: The legacies of laurine c. Anderson and edward l. Blackshear / Jared R. Stallones

Chapter 5. Adventitiously blind, advantageously political: John eldred swearingen and social definitions of disability in progressive-era south carolina / Edward A. Janak

Chapter 6. Correspondence study and the crime of the century: Helen williams, nathan leopold, and the stateville correspondence school / Von Pittman

Part III. Educational reform

Chapter 7. The second great awakening and American educational reform: Insights from the biography of john milton gregory / John F. Wakefield

Chapter 8. More valuable than even radium: Christine ladd-franklin's perspective on intellect and the life of the mind / Andrea Walton

Chapter 9. Lucy spence morice: Working toward a just society via the education of citizens and socialist feminist collective action / Lynne Trethewey

Chapter 10. George s. Counts: Leading social reconstructionist / Bruce Romanish

Part IV. Interpreting educators' lives

Chapter 11. Beyond life writing: Reflections on biography and historiography / A. J. Angulo

Chapter 12. Contextualizing and contesting national identities: Lillian de lissa, 1885-1967 / Kay Whitehead

Chapter 13. Necessary betrayals: Reflections on biographical work on a racist ancestor / Lucy E. Bailey

About the editors/authors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-62396-492-X