Recently added articles from Vitae Scholasticae:
Editors' note.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Welcome, readers, to the 2006 issue of Vitae Scholasticae! When putting this issue together we had fun finding threads and themes that carried through the articles. In "Illich's Table," Daniel Grego offers us a lovely meditation on the ideas of Ivan Illich who died in 2002. He begins with ...
Illich's table.(Ivan Illich)(Brief biography)(Report)
Jan 01, 2006; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Is it not the case that our world is out of whack with any prior historical epoch?" (1) --Ivan Illich 1. In 1985, Wendell Berry wrote an essay entitled "What Are People For?" He recounted the mass migration in the ...
Alice White: the principal who influenced Rosa Parks (1).(Brief biography)(Report)
Jan 01, 2006; ... The recent passing of Rosa Parks has prompted interest in the life story of the civil rights heroine who quietly refused to be treated as a second-class citizen. Fourteen years before her death, Parks recalled in her autobiography that her school principal, Alice White, was an important ...
Academic freedom and the lost cause: the short career of professor Joseph Baldwin at the University of Texas.(Report)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Recent controversy over the contrarian views of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks espoused by University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill and University of Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett serves as a reminder that public universities are essentially political institutions, because ...
Herland revisited: narratives of motherhood, domesticity, and physical emancipation in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist utopia.(Report)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Preface On April 2, 2006, in the Toronto Star, a feature article entitled "Working Girls, Broken Society" is published. This article examines a recent theory by Professor Alison Wolf, a professor of public sector management at King's College, London, and the author of Does ...
About wishes and invitations: four meditations on life writing with Carl Leggo.
Jan 01, 2006; ... I heard Carl Leggo speak at a conference last spring. In a crowded and neonlit lecture hall, the pony-tailed, jean-clad poet/professor took the podium and promised "performance instead of proof." For the next hour, he delivered amply on his declaration; in a frenetic and living concert of ...
Editor's note.
Mar 22, 2005; ... My term as Editor ends with this volume of Vitae Scholasticae. I want to thank the International Society for Educational Biography (ISEB) for choosing me to do a task I love, helping writers to actualize their communication intentions; I also want to share a personal perspective on ...
New editors for Vitae Scholasticae.
Mar 22, 2005 ... Beginning with Volume 23 of Vitae Scholasticae in year 2006, the co-editors of the journal will be: Patricia Inman College of Education Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois 60115 gpinman@msn.com and ...
Esther Burnett Horne, Shoshone educator.(Biography)
Mar 22, 2005; ... When I first began to teach courses in American Indian Education at North Dakota State University, (1) Esther Burnett Horne, Wind River Shoshone, a highly respected tribal elder and retired teacher of Wahpeton Indian School in Wahpeton, North Dakota, graciously became my mentor. She shared ...
The 49th and other parallels in the temperance auto/biographies of Letitia Youmans (Canada 1893) and Frances Willard (U.S. 1889).
Mar 22, 2005; ... I have organized my research by interconnecting the autobiographies of two nineteenth-century leaders of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) with my own auto/biography of crisscrossing the US-Canada border. This strategy allows me to make sense of my formal and informal ...
Creating home and country: the centennial life of Emma Ducie.(Biography)
Mar 22, 2005; ... Here the Saskatchewan prairie is neither rolling nor flat. The gentle ripple in the land is covered with yellow carpets of canola and tall and tender green wheat. On a clear day and at a high point on the gravel road, you can see Mt. Blackstrap against the southern horizon; on the eastern ...
The progressive legacy of Flora White.(Biography)
Mar 22, 2005; ... The life story of Flora White (1860-1948) informs a growing body of scholarship on the role of women in the progressive education movement of the early twentieth century. A pioneer in physical education and technology education, White's experience differed from prominent male theorists on ...
Boyd H. Bode and the social aims of education.(Biography)
Mar 22, 2005; ... At a time when public education is under attack in the US, and when democracy has been reduced to a system for expressing individual choice and schooling to a consumer good, there is a sore need to rekindle discussion of the wider social purposes of education. Periodic acts of reclamation ...
Politics and principles: Joseph Kinmont Hart and the University of Washington, 1910-1915.(Biography)
Mar 22, 2005; ... Introduction (1) The years 1910-1915 marked a tumultuous time at the University of Washington (UW). The university had three presidents during this time, beginning with Thomas Kane, then interim president Henry Landes, and after a protracted search, Henry Suzzallo. Student ...
Autobiography and identity: six speculations.
Mar 22, 2005; ... <Pre> The question put to the writer 'How much of this is based on your own experience?' is meaningless. All or nothing may be the answer. The fiction, the poem, is not a version of the facts, it is an entirely different way of seeing. (Winterson 1995, 28) </Pre> When I was growing ...
Sisters in mind--early networking for the advancement of women's education: Emma Willard's French connection.
Mar 22, 2005; ... The lifelong friendship and networking between Emma Willard and French femmes de lettres and educators Louise Swanton Belloc and Adelaide Montgolfier are reconstructed here from their correspondence. The letters written by Louise Belloc and Adelaide Montgolfier spanning almost forty years ...