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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Historian Despite the Odds; 3. Serendipity, or So It Would Seem; 4. Memoir: A Mosaic of Memory; 5. Teacher, Superintendent, Scholar: The Gift of Multiple Careers; 6. One Office or Two? My Double Life as a Historian of Education; 7. Becoming a Historian: Educational Choices, Sponsored Mobility, and Institutional Challenges; 8. Life at the Margin of Possibility: Learning along the Way; 9. Becoming a Historian of Higher Education; 10. The Personal Is the Political and the Professional; 11. From the Wabash to the Hudson to the Charles; 12. Scholarship and Fellowship; 13. Soldier Scholar; 14. History of Education: My Entry and My Odyssey; 15. On Becoming a Historian of American Education; 16. An Accidental Historian: Serendipity in the Making of a Career; 17. Adventures in Scholarship; 18. A Progressive Education: A Career in the History of Education; 19. Three Teachers; 20. “Oh the Places You’ll Go!” and Other Good Things about Being a Historian of Education; 21. Story Telling and History; 22. Seeking a Social and Urban History of Education; 23. Reminiscences of a Teacher; 24. A View from the Provinces; 25. From Riga to Ann Arbor: Belatedly Pursuing Education; 26. Seriatim; 27. Eight Subway Stops to the Brighton Line—and What Happened in Between; Afterword
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