Life stories : exploring issues in educational history through biography

• Other Authors: Morice, Linda C.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2013.
• Subjects: Education > Biographical methods.; Education > History > Case studies.; elektronické knihy; Case studies.; Education > General.; History of education.; Education.; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806613052
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-492-4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages)

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 prov...

Table of 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.