Writing Educational Biography: Explorations in Qualitative Research / Edition 1

by Craig Kridel

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815322948
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	Critical Education Practice , #13
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Special Features: *The first collection of its kind in the field of education *Explores the methods of biographical and autobiographical writing and research in relation to educational theory and concerns *Contains essays by well-known educators, historians, and literary biographers *Suitable for Courses in Teachers Education Practicum-all levels; Foundations; Methods courses-all levels; Introduction to Teaching Index. Bibliography.

Editorial Reviews

Having evolved from the Archival and Biographical Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), these 21 chapters explore facets of qualitative research, methodological issues of biographical research, archival research, educational biography for dissertation research, and implications for the field of education. Forthright advice to aspiring educational biographers is offered in the epilogue. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

"A unique addition to the growing catalog of texts about qualitative method. It discusses, in rich detail, research strategies which all qualitative researchers, not just those doing full-fledged educational biographies, will want to make part of their methodological repertoire. The book is also a model of what a good methodology text should look like. It both grapples with provocative intellectual questions associated with doing research and provides the sort of nitty-gritty procedural details which all researchers need." — Robert Donmoyer, Editor, Educational Researcher, Ohio State University
"With publication of this comprehensive and superbly written collection to serve as both guide and validating footnote, 'educational biography'-biographical research into the lives of educators past and present-Now assumes its rightful and legitimate place among the major approaches to qualitative inquiry." — Harry Wolcott, University of Oregon
"This is an extremely important work which adds significantly to our understanding of biography both as a tool in educational research and as a unique genre in its own right. It will be a great source of enlightenment for educators, biographers, and students of biography." — Stephen B. Oates, Paul Murray Kendall Professor of Biography and Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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