2009 Biographical & Documentary Research Program (San Diego)
Conducting Biographical and Documentary Research
Paper discussions related to conducting biographical, documentary, and portraiture-based research.
A Biography of Myles Horton: Examining the Early Years, 1905-1928
Jon Nicholas Hale, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
A History of the Navajo Headstart Immersion Project 1995-2000: Completing the Circle of Knowledge
Louise Lockard, Northern Arizona University; Jennie Degroat, Northern Arizona University
Are “dispositions” all we got? Documenting teaching’s quest for meaning, purpose, and identity
Pamela J. Konkol, University of Illinois - Chicago
Alonzo Crim: Atlanta's First African-American School Superintendent During the Desegregation Era
Chara H. Bohan, Georgia State University
Constructing a life worth telling: Narrative fiction in educational research
Jason Michael Lukasik, University of Illinois - Chicago
Ego documents and Language Education: The Case of Diary Writing
Elena Symeon Xeni, University of Cyprus
Grandmothers of the Metis Nation: Stories of Community and Archival Research with Dorothy Chartrand
Judy M. Iseke-Barnes, Lakehead University
Session: Public Pedagogy and Social Action: Examinations and Portraits
(Co-sponsored with the SIG on Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies)
Educational Inquiry and the Pedagogical Other: On the Politics and Ethics of Researching Critical Public Pedagogy
Jake Burdick, Arizona State University; Jennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State University
Beyond These Tired Walls: A Portrait of Social Action Curriculum Induction as Public Pedagogy
Brian D. Schultz, Northeastern Illinois University
Producing Utopic Spaces in Communities: Youth Art Works “Talk Back”
Sharon Chappell, Arizona State University
Taking Action: Public Pedagogy as Culturally Relevant Classroom Pedagogy; Standards, Objectives and Transforming the World
Peter M. Appelbaum, Arcadia University
William Schubert, University of Illinois - Chicago Discussant/Chair
William C. Ayers, University of Illinois - Chicago Discussant/Chair
Session: “May We Get Us a Heart of Wisdom”: Life Writing Across Knowledge Traditions
Cynthia M. Chambers, University of Lethbridge
Nane Ariadne Jordan, University of British Columbia
Carl Leggo, University of British Columbia
Vicki Lynn Kelly, Simon Fraser University
Anita Sinner, University of Lethbridge
Erika L. Hasebe-Ludt, University of Lethbridge Participant/Chair
Paper discussions related to conducting biographical, documentary, and portraiture-based research.
A Biography of Myles Horton: Examining the Early Years, 1905-1928
Jon Nicholas Hale, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
A History of the Navajo Headstart Immersion Project 1995-2000: Completing the Circle of Knowledge
Louise Lockard, Northern Arizona University; Jennie Degroat, Northern Arizona University
Are “dispositions” all we got? Documenting teaching’s quest for meaning, purpose, and identity
Pamela J. Konkol, University of Illinois - Chicago
Alonzo Crim: Atlanta's First African-American School Superintendent During the Desegregation Era
Chara H. Bohan, Georgia State University
Constructing a life worth telling: Narrative fiction in educational research
Jason Michael Lukasik, University of Illinois - Chicago
Ego documents and Language Education: The Case of Diary Writing
Elena Symeon Xeni, University of Cyprus
Grandmothers of the Metis Nation: Stories of Community and Archival Research with Dorothy Chartrand
Judy M. Iseke-Barnes, Lakehead University
Session: Public Pedagogy and Social Action: Examinations and Portraits
(Co-sponsored with the SIG on Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies)
Educational Inquiry and the Pedagogical Other: On the Politics and Ethics of Researching Critical Public Pedagogy
Jake Burdick, Arizona State University; Jennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State University
Beyond These Tired Walls: A Portrait of Social Action Curriculum Induction as Public Pedagogy
Brian D. Schultz, Northeastern Illinois University
Producing Utopic Spaces in Communities: Youth Art Works “Talk Back”
Sharon Chappell, Arizona State University
Taking Action: Public Pedagogy as Culturally Relevant Classroom Pedagogy; Standards, Objectives and Transforming the World
Peter M. Appelbaum, Arcadia University
William Schubert, University of Illinois - Chicago Discussant/Chair
William C. Ayers, University of Illinois - Chicago Discussant/Chair
Session: “May We Get Us a Heart of Wisdom”: Life Writing Across Knowledge Traditions
Cynthia M. Chambers, University of Lethbridge
Nane Ariadne Jordan, University of British Columbia
Carl Leggo, University of British Columbia
Vicki Lynn Kelly, Simon Fraser University
Anita Sinner, University of Lethbridge
Erika L. Hasebe-Ludt, University of Lethbridge Participant/Chair
2008 Biographical & Documentary Research Program (New York)
Biography, Society, and Education: A South African Case Study
Session type: Interactive Symposium
Alan Wieder, University of South Carolina
Aslam Fataar, University of the Western Cape
Peter Kallaway, University of the Western Cape
Nur Mohammed Badroodien, University of Nottingham
Crain Soudien, University of Cape Town
Roberta Wollons, University of Massachusetts Chair
Conducting and Writing Biographical and Documentary Research
Session type: Paper Discussion (formerly known as Roundtables)
Shoot the Spouse: Issues in Biographical Research
Craig Kridel, University of South Carolina
Doing ethnographic biography: A reflective practitioner at work during a Spring in Cambridge
Louis Smith, Washington University
Learning from Agrarianism: Curricular Implications of Wendell Berry’s Land Ethic
Jason Lukasik, University of Illinois at Chicago
Codified behavior, common cause, or something else altogether: Teaching's (anti-)ethos revealed through archival analysis.
Pamela Konkol, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mary Carroll Craig Bradford: A Biographical Dissertation of “Colorado Children’s Blessing”
Heather Caldwell, Texas A&M University
Learning to Let Go of Nanny: A documentary analysis of ideology and the U.K. National Curriculum
Isabel Nunez, Concordia University Chicago
Conducting Biographical Research with Historically Marginalized Populations
Session type: Paper Session
Durene Wheeler, Northeastern Illinois University Chair
Testimony: Exploring Historical Implications of Schooling, Culture, and Gender through Reading as Autoethnography
Durene Wheeler, Northeastern Illinois University
Womanist Biographies - Afriographies: Documenting How Experience and the Notion of Race Uplift Inform the Pedagogies of Three Black Women Teacher Educators
Djanna Hill-Brisbane, William Paterson University
“Some of our students come in, and they really don’t know their language, their culture or who they are”: The Historical Context of Navajo Language Literacy
Louise Lockard, Northern Arizona University
Perla’s Memorias: A Migrant, Mexican American Teacher’s
Howard Smith, University of Texas At San Antonio
Roland Sintos Coloma Miami University Discussant
Memory and Memoir: SIG-Biographical and Documentary Research SIG Business Meeting
Session type: Business Meeting
Craig Kridel, University of South Carolina Chair
Brian Schultz, Northeastern Illinois University Chair
William Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago
Maxine Greene, Teacher's College, Columbia University
Louise DeSalvo, Hunter College
Teaching the Democratic Way: Deliberating Possibilities between Emerging and Senior Scholars
Session type: Interactive Symposium
William Schubert, University of Illinois at Chicago Chair
Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way: Lessons from an Urban Classroom
Brian Schultz, Northeastern Illinois University
Mentoring Young Men of Color: Meeting the Needs of African American and Latino Students
Horace Hall, DePaul University
Voices from Within: The Education and Empowerment of African American and Latina Girls
Andrea Brown, Concordia University Chicago
Michael Apple, University of Wisconsin
William Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago
Deborah Meier, New York University
Pedro Noguera, New York University Discussant
Vulnerability and Mastery: Lessons From the Teaching Life of Anne Sexton
Session type: Interactive Symposium
Critical Reviews of Anne Sexton: Teacher of Weird Abundance
Madeleine Grumet, The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Chair, Participant
Wendy Atwell-Vasey, Mary Washington University Participant
Robert Bullough, Brigham Young University Particitpant
Susan Franzosa, Fairfield University Participant
Louise DeSalvo, Hunter College Participant
Writing and Conducting Biographical and Documentary Research
Session type: Paper Discussion (formerly known as Roundtables)
Don Lorenzo Milani: An Early Proponent of "There are No Shortcuts"
Marvin Hoffman, Center for Urban School Improvement, University of Chicago
Leadership Preparation for Fearless Self-Inquiry: An Ontology
Karen Hammel, University of Minnesota; C. Brunner, University of Minnesota; Christen Opsal, University of Minnesota
Richard W. Corwin: The Mystery of the Obvious
Lynn Burlbaw, Texas A&m University
The Difficult Task of Going Beyond Dewey Without Avoiding Him
Joao Paraskeva, University of Minho
What are Johnny, Juan, and John, Jr. Reading? A Document Analysis of the Cultural Capital Worth of Elementary Instructional Texts
Dara Soljaga, Concordia University Chicago; Pamela Konkol, University of Illinois at Chicago
(Dis)Located Narratives: Membranous Lines of Autobiographical Narrative and Transnational Inquiry
Session type: Symposium (Co-Sponsored with the SIG on Narrative and Research)
Naoko Akai, Teachers College Columbia University
Chinelo Ejueyitchie, Teachers College, Columbia University
Leigh Jonaitis, Teachers College Columbia University
Jungah Kim, Teacher's College, Columbia University
Joseph Lewis, Teachers College, Columbia
En-Shu Liao, Teachers College, Columbia University
Janet Miller, Teachers College, Columbia University
Pamela Murphy, Teachers College, Columbia University
Antoinette Quarshie, Teacher's College, Columbia University
Mary Rojas, Teachers College, Columbia University
Mary Sefranek, University of Puerto Rico, Mayag Campus
Antoinette Quarshie Teacher's College, Columbia University Chair
Session type: Interactive Symposium
Alan Wieder, University of South Carolina
Aslam Fataar, University of the Western Cape
Peter Kallaway, University of the Western Cape
Nur Mohammed Badroodien, University of Nottingham
Crain Soudien, University of Cape Town
Roberta Wollons, University of Massachusetts Chair
Conducting and Writing Biographical and Documentary Research
Session type: Paper Discussion (formerly known as Roundtables)
Shoot the Spouse: Issues in Biographical Research
Craig Kridel, University of South Carolina
Doing ethnographic biography: A reflective practitioner at work during a Spring in Cambridge
Louis Smith, Washington University
Learning from Agrarianism: Curricular Implications of Wendell Berry’s Land Ethic
Jason Lukasik, University of Illinois at Chicago
Codified behavior, common cause, or something else altogether: Teaching's (anti-)ethos revealed through archival analysis.
Pamela Konkol, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mary Carroll Craig Bradford: A Biographical Dissertation of “Colorado Children’s Blessing”
Heather Caldwell, Texas A&M University
Learning to Let Go of Nanny: A documentary analysis of ideology and the U.K. National Curriculum
Isabel Nunez, Concordia University Chicago
Conducting Biographical Research with Historically Marginalized Populations
Session type: Paper Session
Durene Wheeler, Northeastern Illinois University Chair
Testimony: Exploring Historical Implications of Schooling, Culture, and Gender through Reading as Autoethnography
Durene Wheeler, Northeastern Illinois University
Womanist Biographies - Afriographies: Documenting How Experience and the Notion of Race Uplift Inform the Pedagogies of Three Black Women Teacher Educators
Djanna Hill-Brisbane, William Paterson University
“Some of our students come in, and they really don’t know their language, their culture or who they are”: The Historical Context of Navajo Language Literacy
Louise Lockard, Northern Arizona University
Perla’s Memorias: A Migrant, Mexican American Teacher’s
Howard Smith, University of Texas At San Antonio
Roland Sintos Coloma Miami University Discussant
Memory and Memoir: SIG-Biographical and Documentary Research SIG Business Meeting
Session type: Business Meeting
Craig Kridel, University of South Carolina Chair
Brian Schultz, Northeastern Illinois University Chair
William Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago
Maxine Greene, Teacher's College, Columbia University
Louise DeSalvo, Hunter College
Teaching the Democratic Way: Deliberating Possibilities between Emerging and Senior Scholars
Session type: Interactive Symposium
William Schubert, University of Illinois at Chicago Chair
Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way: Lessons from an Urban Classroom
Brian Schultz, Northeastern Illinois University
Mentoring Young Men of Color: Meeting the Needs of African American and Latino Students
Horace Hall, DePaul University
Voices from Within: The Education and Empowerment of African American and Latina Girls
Andrea Brown, Concordia University Chicago
Michael Apple, University of Wisconsin
William Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago
Deborah Meier, New York University
Pedro Noguera, New York University Discussant
Vulnerability and Mastery: Lessons From the Teaching Life of Anne Sexton
Session type: Interactive Symposium
Critical Reviews of Anne Sexton: Teacher of Weird Abundance
Madeleine Grumet, The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Chair, Participant
Wendy Atwell-Vasey, Mary Washington University Participant
Robert Bullough, Brigham Young University Particitpant
Susan Franzosa, Fairfield University Participant
Louise DeSalvo, Hunter College Participant
Writing and Conducting Biographical and Documentary Research
Session type: Paper Discussion (formerly known as Roundtables)
Don Lorenzo Milani: An Early Proponent of "There are No Shortcuts"
Marvin Hoffman, Center for Urban School Improvement, University of Chicago
Leadership Preparation for Fearless Self-Inquiry: An Ontology
Karen Hammel, University of Minnesota; C. Brunner, University of Minnesota; Christen Opsal, University of Minnesota
Richard W. Corwin: The Mystery of the Obvious
Lynn Burlbaw, Texas A&m University
The Difficult Task of Going Beyond Dewey Without Avoiding Him
Joao Paraskeva, University of Minho
What are Johnny, Juan, and John, Jr. Reading? A Document Analysis of the Cultural Capital Worth of Elementary Instructional Texts
Dara Soljaga, Concordia University Chicago; Pamela Konkol, University of Illinois at Chicago
(Dis)Located Narratives: Membranous Lines of Autobiographical Narrative and Transnational Inquiry
Session type: Symposium (Co-Sponsored with the SIG on Narrative and Research)
Naoko Akai, Teachers College Columbia University
Chinelo Ejueyitchie, Teachers College, Columbia University
Leigh Jonaitis, Teachers College Columbia University
Jungah Kim, Teacher's College, Columbia University
Joseph Lewis, Teachers College, Columbia
En-Shu Liao, Teachers College, Columbia University
Janet Miller, Teachers College, Columbia University
Pamela Murphy, Teachers College, Columbia University
Antoinette Quarshie, Teacher's College, Columbia University
Mary Rojas, Teachers College, Columbia University
Mary Sefranek, University of Puerto Rico, Mayag Campus
Antoinette Quarshie Teacher's College, Columbia University Chair
2007 Biographical & Documentary Research Program (Chicago)
A Conversation With Studs Terkel
Chair: Craig Kridel (University of South Carolina)
Participant: Studs Terkel (Educational Consultant)
Discussant: William C. Ayers (University of Illinois - Chicago)
Discussant: Rick Ayers (Berkeley High School)
Conducting and Writing Biographical Research
Chair: Brian D. Schultz (Northeastern Illinois University)
Who's Talking?
*Mary E. Hauser (National-Louis University)
From a Gadfly to a Hornet: The Intellectual Life of Joseph Kinmont Hart
*Deron R. Boyles (Georgia State University)
Genealogical Refusals: Considerations in Biographical Work on Ancestors
*Lucy E. Bailey (Oklahoma State University)
Sexuality, Discourse, and Biographical Method: Issues in Telling Other People's Lives
*Cheryl T. Desmond (Millersville University), Janet L. Miller (Teachers College)
Discussant: Craig Kridel (University of South Carolina)
Documentary Research as Change Agent: Fifth Graders From Chicago’s Cabrini Green Fight for a Better School
*Paris Banks (Chicago Public Schools),
*Daviell Bonds (Chicago Public Schools),
*Lamarius Brewer (Chicago Public Schools),
*Shaquice Davis (Chicago Public Schools),
*Tywon Easter (Chicago Public Schools),
*Manuel Pratt (Chicago Public Schools),
*Kaprice Pruitt (Chicago Public Schools),
*Brian D. Schultz (Northeastern Illinois University)
Discussant: Sherick A. Hughes (University of Toledo)
Issues in Biographical and Documentary Research
Biography as Social, Southern, and Science History
*A. J. Angulo (Winthrop University)
Goodnight and “Good Luck”: Excerpts From the Story of Scott Goodnight, Dean of Men, University of Wisconsin, 1916-1945
*Robert A. Schwartz (Florida State University)
Ideology and Curriculum, Official Knowledge, and Public Democratic Schools: Toward Michael Apple’s [R]evolutionary Political and Pedagogical Trilogy
*Joao Menelau Paraskeva (University of Minho)
Not Another Missionary: Sister Nivedita as a Pioneer of Education in Bengal
*Abdul Latif (Sacred Heart University), Monowar Haider (University of Ottawa)
The Spanish Civil War and the Lincoln Brigade Veterans: The Education of a Forever Activist
*Julie Kailin (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
Issues in Documentary and Biographical Research
Educational Biography and the Quest for Social Justice: Writing on Teacher/Comrades
*Alan Wieder (University of South Carolina)
The Freedmen's Teacher Project at Mid-Point: An Update and Appraisal of Lessons Learned
*Ronald E. Butchart (University of Georgia), *Amy F. Rolleri (University of Georgia)
Issues in Biographical Research: The Power of a Biographical Vignette
*Craig Kridel (University of South Carolina)
Issues in Documentary Research: Problems and Dilemmas When Blurring the Boundaries
*Brian Schultz (Northeastern Illinois University), *Pam Konkol (University of Illinois - Chicago)
Jane Addams' Journey: Life and Legacy
*Isabel Nunez (University of Illinois - Chicago)
Using New iPod Technologies for Biographical, Documentary, and Ethnographic Research
Chair: Isabel Nunez (University of Illinois - Chicago)
Participant: Karen Percak (University of Chicago)
Participant: Lucy Gray (University of Chicago)
Participant: Nichole D. Pinkard (University of Chicago)
Participant: Bruce Ahlborn (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Christina Madda (University of Illinois - Chicago)
Discussant: Celia J. Oyler (Teachers College, Columbia University)
Writing African-American Biography
Chair: Brian D. Schultz (Northeastern Illinois University) schultz.brian@gmail.com
Participant: Carl A. Grant (University of Wisconsin - Madison) grant@education.wisc.edu
Participant: Gloria J. Ladson-Billings (University of Wisconsin - Madison) gjladson@wisc.edu
Participant: Djanna A. Hill-Brisbane (William Paterson University) hilld@wpunj.edu
Participant: Valinda Littlefield (University of South Carolina) LittleVW@gwm.sc.edu
Chair: Craig Kridel (University of South Carolina)
Participant: Studs Terkel (Educational Consultant)
Discussant: William C. Ayers (University of Illinois - Chicago)
Discussant: Rick Ayers (Berkeley High School)
Conducting and Writing Biographical Research
Chair: Brian D. Schultz (Northeastern Illinois University)
Who's Talking?
*Mary E. Hauser (National-Louis University)
From a Gadfly to a Hornet: The Intellectual Life of Joseph Kinmont Hart
*Deron R. Boyles (Georgia State University)
Genealogical Refusals: Considerations in Biographical Work on Ancestors
*Lucy E. Bailey (Oklahoma State University)
Sexuality, Discourse, and Biographical Method: Issues in Telling Other People's Lives
*Cheryl T. Desmond (Millersville University), Janet L. Miller (Teachers College)
Discussant: Craig Kridel (University of South Carolina)
Documentary Research as Change Agent: Fifth Graders From Chicago’s Cabrini Green Fight for a Better School
*Paris Banks (Chicago Public Schools),
*Daviell Bonds (Chicago Public Schools),
*Lamarius Brewer (Chicago Public Schools),
*Shaquice Davis (Chicago Public Schools),
*Tywon Easter (Chicago Public Schools),
*Manuel Pratt (Chicago Public Schools),
*Kaprice Pruitt (Chicago Public Schools),
*Brian D. Schultz (Northeastern Illinois University)
Discussant: Sherick A. Hughes (University of Toledo)
Issues in Biographical and Documentary Research
Biography as Social, Southern, and Science History
*A. J. Angulo (Winthrop University)
Goodnight and “Good Luck”: Excerpts From the Story of Scott Goodnight, Dean of Men, University of Wisconsin, 1916-1945
*Robert A. Schwartz (Florida State University)
Ideology and Curriculum, Official Knowledge, and Public Democratic Schools: Toward Michael Apple’s [R]evolutionary Political and Pedagogical Trilogy
*Joao Menelau Paraskeva (University of Minho)
Not Another Missionary: Sister Nivedita as a Pioneer of Education in Bengal
*Abdul Latif (Sacred Heart University), Monowar Haider (University of Ottawa)
The Spanish Civil War and the Lincoln Brigade Veterans: The Education of a Forever Activist
*Julie Kailin (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
Issues in Documentary and Biographical Research
Educational Biography and the Quest for Social Justice: Writing on Teacher/Comrades
*Alan Wieder (University of South Carolina)
The Freedmen's Teacher Project at Mid-Point: An Update and Appraisal of Lessons Learned
*Ronald E. Butchart (University of Georgia), *Amy F. Rolleri (University of Georgia)
Issues in Biographical Research: The Power of a Biographical Vignette
*Craig Kridel (University of South Carolina)
Issues in Documentary Research: Problems and Dilemmas When Blurring the Boundaries
*Brian Schultz (Northeastern Illinois University), *Pam Konkol (University of Illinois - Chicago)
Jane Addams' Journey: Life and Legacy
*Isabel Nunez (University of Illinois - Chicago)
Using New iPod Technologies for Biographical, Documentary, and Ethnographic Research
Chair: Isabel Nunez (University of Illinois - Chicago)
Participant: Karen Percak (University of Chicago)
Participant: Lucy Gray (University of Chicago)
Participant: Nichole D. Pinkard (University of Chicago)
Participant: Bruce Ahlborn (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Christina Madda (University of Illinois - Chicago)
Discussant: Celia J. Oyler (Teachers College, Columbia University)
Writing African-American Biography
Chair: Brian D. Schultz (Northeastern Illinois University) schultz.brian@gmail.com
Participant: Carl A. Grant (University of Wisconsin - Madison) grant@education.wisc.edu
Participant: Gloria J. Ladson-Billings (University of Wisconsin - Madison) gjladson@wisc.edu
Participant: Djanna A. Hill-Brisbane (William Paterson University) hilld@wpunj.edu
Participant: Valinda Littlefield (University of South Carolina) LittleVW@gwm.sc.edu