Biography and Education A Reader 1st Edition by Michael Erben ISBN 9781135711221 1135711224

Over recent years biographical studies have gained an increasingly important place in academic study. The two are inextricably linked. Education uses biography in teaching, and in biography, education features strongly as a formative stage in personal development. This book elaborates on the analytical work that has drawn attention to biography and education, and seeks to expand the understanding of lives in educational contexts. Mainstream sociology has been quick to embrace this treatment of individuals as biographical appearances, but it is even more relevant in the field of education.

Biography and Education A Reader 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Biography and Research Method

Introduction

Empirical particularities

Imagination

Narrative

References

2 The Story of the Self: Education, Experience and Autobiography

The present self: Two stories of autobiography

Decentring time

Development without ‘progress’

Writing autobiography differently

Postscript

Note

References

3 Fragments of a Life: Recursive Dilemmas

Introduction

A teacher’s life

Concluding remarks

Acknowledgments

References

4 Adolescent Girls Reflect on Educational Choices

Emma’s educational life history

Vicky’s educational life history

Conclusion

Notes

References

5 Voices from the Margins: Regulation and Resistance in the Lives of Lesbian Teachers

Sexuality and surveillance of the self: The introduction of Section 28

Locating lesbian lives

Performing heterosexuality—just a passing phase?

Passing as an act of resistance and subversion

Missing voices: Hearing what ‘we’ have to say

Concluding remarks

Notes

References

6 Perspectives on Learning Difficulties through Biographies

Introduction

Constative and performative purposes of written and oral narratives

iculties …

The oral account—David’s story

The role of narrative structure in expressing performative meaning

Concluding remarks

References

7 Collecting Slices of College Dropouts’ Lives

Introduction

Words and meanings

The missing population

The ‘foot in the door’

The ‘oblique sample’

The biographies—mind the gap!

College enrolment

There are four types of dropout

The early leaver

The opportunist dropout

The consumer

The life crisis dropout

The tangled stories—interpretive interaction1

Solutions

The last word

Note

Glossary of terms

References

8 An Auto/Biographical Account of Educational Experience

Stories…stories

The village school: 1955

The town junior school: 1959

The secondary modern school: 1961

The grammar school: 1962

Auto/biography and working-class experience

Notes

References

9 PhD Students and the Auto/Biographies of Their Learning

Pam’s voice—fragments from the auto/biography of her learning

A partial commentary on the fragments from the auto/biography of Pam’s learning

Zoë’s voice—fragments from the auto/biography of my learning

Fragmentary comment on Zoë’s voice

Moyra, Zoë and Pam’s voices—harmony or discord in an educational setting?

Concluding comment—how many voices will enter the chorus?

References

10 A Biographical Approach to the History of Education: Nineteenth Century Nonconformist Lives and

Subordination versus self-help and improvement

Sectarian versus non-sectarian education

State education versus voluntaryism

William Allen

Edward Baines jnr, MP

Jeremiah James Colman, MP

Notes

References

11 The Autobiographical Account of the Education of an African Slave in Eighteenth Century England

Issues of methodology

The context

Eighteenth century society

Education in the eighteenth century

The education of Olaudah Equiano

Conclusion

References

Notes on Contributors

Index

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