Life Stories

Life Stories: Exploring Issues in Educational History Through Biography consists of 13 essayseach of which offers perspective on one of four key questions that have long drawn scholarlyattention: What should schools teach? Who gets to decide? How should educators adapt to achanging world to provide opportunity for all students? How should educators' experiences beinterpreted for future audiences?The book is written to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the International Society forEducational Biography and its journal Vitae Scholasticae. All of the essays have appeared in thejournal and they are set in a variety of educational environments that span 174 years. Taken together the essays demonstrate theimportant contributions that biography can make to educational history.Life Stories would be of interest to educational biographers and historians for use in their own scholarly work. Instructors might alsoconsider assigning Life Stories as a required text in educational history courses.