| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages) |
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Leaders in educational studies ; v. 3 |
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Leaders in educational studies ; v. 3.
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| Contents |
Foreword / Bernard Bailyn -- 1. Introduction / Wayne J. Urban -- 2. Historian despite the odds / Ronald E. Butchart -- 3. Serendipity, or so it would seem / Geraldine Jonc̜ich Clifford -- 4. Memoir: a mosaic of memory / Sol Cohen -- 5. Teacher, superintendent, scholar: the gift of multiple careers / Larry Cuban -- 6. One office or two? My double life as historian of education / William W. Cutler, III -- 7. Becoming a historian: educational choices, sponsored mobility, and institutional challanges / Mary Ann Dzuback -- 8. Life at the margin of possibility: learning along the way / Barbara Finkelstein -- 9. Becoming a historian of higher education / Roger L. Geiger -- 10. The Personal is the political and the professional / Lynn D. Gordon -- 11. From the Wabash to the Hudson to the Charles / Patricia Albjerg Graham -- 12. Scholarship and fellowship / Hugh Hawkins -- 13. Soldier scholar / Jurgen Herbst -- 14. History of education: my entry and my odyssey / Carl F. Kaestle -- 15. On becoming a historian of American education / Harvey Kantor -- 16. An Accidental historian: serendipity in the making of a career / Michael B. Katz -- 17. Adventures in scholarship / David F. Labaree -- 18. A Progressive education: a career in the history of education / Ellen CondliffeLagemann -- 19. Three teachers / Jeffrey E. Mirel -- 20. "Oh the places you'll go!" and other good things about being a historian of education / Diane Ravitch -- 21. Story telling and history / William J. Reese -- 22. Seeking a social and urban history of education / John L. Rury -- 23. Reminiscences of a teacher / David Tyack -- 24. A View from the provinces / Wayne J. Urban -- 25. From Riga to Ann Arbor: belatedly pursuing education history and policy / Maris A. Vinovskis -- 26. Seriatim / Donald Warren -- 27. Eight subway stops to the Brighton line -- and what happened in between / Harold S. Wechsler -- Afterword / Kate Rousmaniere |
| Summary |
This volume consists of twenty six autobiographical essays by leading historians of American education which document the enormous variety of paths taken to get into this field. A companion to earlier volumes on philosophy of education and curriculum studies, the historians in this volume reflect a wide variety of interests that underlay accomplishment in this scholarly field. They come from diverse backgrounds that have animated their scholarly careers in compelling ways. Readers in any variety of educational or historical study should learn from this volume how unplanned careers can still result in highly successful sets of accomplishments. That realization is a tribute both to the individual contributors and to the great attractiveness of educational history to committed scholars of various backgrounds and orientations |
| Analysis |
Education |
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Administration, Organization and Leadership |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Education -- United States -- History
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Educators -- United States -- Biography
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Historians -- United States -- Biography
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EDUCATION -- Essays.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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EDUCATION -- Reference.
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Sciences sociales.
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Droit.
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Sciences humaines.
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Education
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Educators
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Historians
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Urban, Wayne J.
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| ISBN |
9789460917554 |
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9460917550 |
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