"A unique addition to the growing catalog of texts about qualitative method. It discusses, in rich detail, research strategies which all qualitative researchers, not just those doing full-fledged educational biographies, will want to make part of their methodological repertoire. The book is also a model of what a good methodology text should look like. It both grapples with provocative intellectual questions associated with doing research and provides the sort of nitty-gritty procedural details which all researchers need." -- Robert Donmoyer, Editor, Educational Researcher, Ohio State University"With publication of this comprehensive and superbly written collection to serve as both guide and validating footnote, 'educational biography'-biographical research into the lives of educators past and present-Now assumes its rightful and legitimate place among the major approaches to qualitative inquiry." -- Harry Wolcott, University of Oregon"This is an extremely important work which adds significantly to our understanding of biography both as a tool in educational research and as a unique genre in its own right. It will be a great source of enlightenment for educators, biographers, and students of biography." -- Stephen B. Oates, Paul Murray Kendall Professor of Biography and Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Qualitative Research and Educational Biography; Chapter 2 Introduction; Chapter 3 Musings on Life Writing: Biography and Case Studies in Teacher Education, Robert V.BulloughJr.; Chapter 4 Ethnography with a Biographic Eye, Corrine E. Glesne; Chapter 5 Revealing Human Agency: The Uses of Biography in the Study of Educational History, Barbara Finkelstein; Chapter 6 Construction Scars: Autobiographical Voice in Biography, William F. Pinar, Anne E. Pautz; Part 2 Methodological Issues and Biographical Research; Chapter 7 Introduction; Chapter 8 The Issue of Subject: A Critical Connection, Blanche Wiesen Cook; Chapter 9 The Issue of Gender: Continuing Problems in Biography, Linda C. Wagner-Martin; Chapter 10 Black Subject, White Biographer, Wayne J. Urban; Chapter 11 Trust and Memory: Explorations in Oral History and Biography, Alan Wieder; Part 3 Archival Research and Educational Biography; Chapter 12 Introduction; Chapter 13 Unique Resources: Research in Archival Collections, Herbert J. Hartsook; Chapter 14 Fair Use Issues in Archival and Biographical Research, Philo Hutcheson; Chapter 15 The Historical Recovery of Edyth Astrid Ferris, Geraldine Joncich Clifford; Chapter 16 On Becoming an Archivist and Biographer, Louis M. Smith; Part 4 Educational Biography as Dissertation Research; Chapter 17 Introduction; Chapter 18 Finding Facts, Telling Truths, Achieving Art, Katherine C. Reynolds; Chapter 19 Willing Biographer, Unwilling Subject, Tony Reid; Chapter 20 The Biographer's Relationship with Her Subject, Lynda Anderson Smith; Chapter 21 A Search for Prose That Recreates the Past, Thomas B. Horton; Chapter 22 Is It Fiction or Biography?, Edwin C. Epps; Part 5 Implications for the Field of Education; Chapter 23 Introduction; Chapter 24 Biography, Education and Questions of the Private Voice, Janet L. Miller; Chapter 25 I Search, You Search, We All Search: Biography and the Public Voice, William Ayers; Chapter 26 Asking Questions About Telling Stories, D. Jean Clandinin, F. Michael Connelly; Chapter 27 Inquiry, Data and Understanding: A Search for Meaning in Educational Research, Lorin W. Anderson;

"A unique addition to the growing catalog of texts about qualitative method. It discusses, in rich detail, research strategies which all qualitative researchers, not just those doing full-fledged educational biographies, will want to make part of their methodological repertoire. The book is also a model of what a good methodology text should look like. It both grapples with provocative intellectual questions associated with doing research and provides the sort of nitty-gritty procedural details which all researchers need." -- Robert Donmoyer, Editor, Educational Researcher, Ohio State University"With publication of this comprehensive and superbly written collection to serve as both guide and validating footnote, 'educational biography'-biographical research into the lives of educators past and present-Now assumes its rightful and legitimate place among the major approaches to qualitative inquiry." -- Harry Wolcott, University of Oregon"This is an extremely important work which adds significantly to our understanding of biography both as a tool in educational research and as a unique genre in its own right. It will be a great source of enlightenment for educators, biographers, and students of biography." -- Stephen B. Oates, Paul Murray Kendall Professor of Biography and Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Qualitative Research and Educational Biography; Chapter 2 Introduction; Chapter 3 Musings on Life Writing: Biography and Case Studies in Teacher Education, Robert V.BulloughJr.; Chapter 4 Ethnography with a Biographic Eye, Corrine E. Glesne; Chapter 5 Revealing Human Agency: The Uses of Biography in the Study of Educational History, Barbara Finkelstein; Chapter 6 Construction Scars: Autobiographical Voice in Biography, William F. Pinar, Anne E. Pautz; Part 2 Methodological Issues and Biographical Research; Chapter 7 Introduction; Chapter 8 The Issue of Subject: A Critical Connection, Blanche Wiesen Cook; Chapter 9 The Issue of Gender: Continuing Problems in Biography, Linda C. Wagner-Martin; Chapter 10 Black Subject, White Biographer, Wayne J. Urban; Chapter 11 Trust and Memory: Explorations in Oral History and Biography, Alan Wieder; Part 3 Archival Research and Educational Biography; Chapter 12 Introduction; Chapter 13 Unique Resources: Research in Archival Collections, Herbert J. Hartsook; Chapter 14 Fair Use Issues in Archival and Biographical Research, Philo Hutcheson; Chapter 15 The Historical Recovery of Edyth Astrid Ferris, Geraldine Joncich Clifford; Chapter 16 On Becoming an Archivist and Biographer, Louis M. Smith; Part 4 Educational Biography as Dissertation Research; Chapter 17 Introduction; Chapter 18 Finding Facts, Telling Truths, Achieving Art, Katherine C. Reynolds; Chapter 19 Willing Biographer, Unwilling Subject, Tony Reid; Chapter 20 The Biographer's Relationship with Her Subject, Lynda Anderson Smith; Chapter 21 A Search for Prose That Recreates the Past, Thomas B. Horton; Chapter 22 Is It Fiction or Biography?, Edwin C. Epps; Part 5 Implications for the Field of Education; Chapter 23 Introduction; Chapter 24 Biography, Education and Questions of the Private Voice, Janet L. Miller; Chapter 25 I Search, You Search, We All Search: Biography and the Public Voice, William Ayers; Chapter 26 Asking Questions About Telling Stories, D. Jean Clandinin, F. Michael Connelly; Chapter 27 Inquiry, Data and Understanding: A Search for Meaning in Educational Research, Lorin W. Anderson;