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Leaders in the Historical Study of American Education

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Wayne J. Urban

    1. The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA

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Part of the book series: Leaders in Educational Studies (LES, volume 3)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Wayne J. Urban
    Pages 1-5

  3. Historian Despite the Odds

    • Ronald E. Butchart
    Pages 7-19

  4. Serendipity, or So it Would Seem

    • Geraldine Jonçich Clifford
    Pages 21-31

  5. Memoir

    • Sol Cohen
    Pages 33-44

  6. Teacher, Superintendent, Scholar

    • Larry Cuban
    Pages 45-54

  7. One Office, or two? My Double Life as a Historian of Education

    • William W. Cutler
    Pages 55-67

  8. Becoming A Historian

    • Mary Ann Dzuback
    Pages 69-80

  9. Life at The Margin of Possiblity

    • Barbara Finkelstein
    Pages 81-93

  10. Becoming A Historian of Higher Education

    • Roger L. Geiger
    Pages 95-106

  11. The Personal is The Political and The Professional

    • Lynn D. Gordon
    Pages 107-115

  12. From The Wabash to The Hudson to The Charles

    • Patricia Albjerg Graham
    Pages 117-127

  13. Scholarship and Fellowship

    • Hugh Hawkins
    Pages 129-141

  14. Soldier-Scholar

    • Jurgen Herbst
    Pages 143-152

  15. History of Education

    • Carl F. Kaestle
    Pages 153-164

  16. On Becoming A Historian of American Education

    • Harvey Kantor
    Pages 165-177

  17. An Accidental Historian

    • Michael B. Katz
    Pages 179-192

  18. Adventures in Scholarship

    • David F. Labaree
    Pages 193-204

  19. A Progressive Education

    • Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
    Pages 205-216

  20. Three Teachers

    • Jeffrey E. Mirel
    Pages 217-229
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About this book

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.

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  • The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA

    Wayne J. Urban

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