Writing Educational Biography: Explorations in Qualitative Research

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.

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.