American Educational Research Association's
SIG on Biographical & Documentary Research
Honors Craig Kridel with Meritorious Award
(Transcribed from SIG Business Meeting, April 2008).
Good evening and welcome to our featured session for the Biographical and Documentary Research SIG. My name in Brian Schultz and I am currently the chair of this special interest group of the American Educational Research Association. Before we start the planned session, I want to take this opportunity to present an award to Craig Kridel for his outstanding dedication, leadership, and service to the SIG over the years.
A word about method before I actually present this award—since our SIG members resonate with issues of method—I solicited multiple SIG members to write about Craig and his contributions to the SIG. So, what I am about to read are not my words alone, but a blending of multiple voices in relation to the wonderful work Craig has done for the Biographical and Documentary Research SIG.
Dr. Craig Kridel, E.S. Gambrell Professor of Educational Studies, was the founding chair of Biographical & Documentary Research SIG, and he has often served as chair or a key force in the development and contributions of this Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, since its inception. His own works (e.g., Teachers and Mentors, Books of the Century Catalogue, Writing Educational Biography, and Stories of the Eight-Year Study, as well as his research projects with the Spencer and Rockefeller foundations) are exemplary of the essence of biographical and documentary work.
Craig's intellectual curiosity is boundless, and his ethical ambitions bottomless. He is a humanist whose focus is all the things that human beings construct, develop, and create, including music, education, and art, but also work, culture, language, and imagination.
Craig is an institution builder, and he brings his artist's sensibility and his humanist's heart to all his efforts. His leadership around the work on autobiography and biography, narrative and oral history, is exemplary. His steady and sustained focus and interest in particular people and specific historic moments has allowed him to create an astonishing body of work that has depth and breadth, complexity and nuance. But perhaps what stands out the most is his incredible generosity: intellectual, spiritual, personal, with students, colleagues, associates, and friends.
Craig is the embodiment of an engaged humanist intellectual who leads with compassion and kindness as much as with the weight of his thought. For both his stellar contributions to the SIG and to biographical and documentary research, Professor Kridel should be acknowledged for distinguished contributions.
Good evening and welcome to our featured session for the Biographical and Documentary Research SIG. My name in Brian Schultz and I am currently the chair of this special interest group of the American Educational Research Association. Before we start the planned session, I want to take this opportunity to present an award to Craig Kridel for his outstanding dedication, leadership, and service to the SIG over the years.
A word about method before I actually present this award—since our SIG members resonate with issues of method—I solicited multiple SIG members to write about Craig and his contributions to the SIG. So, what I am about to read are not my words alone, but a blending of multiple voices in relation to the wonderful work Craig has done for the Biographical and Documentary Research SIG.
Dr. Craig Kridel, E.S. Gambrell Professor of Educational Studies, was the founding chair of Biographical & Documentary Research SIG, and he has often served as chair or a key force in the development and contributions of this Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, since its inception. His own works (e.g., Teachers and Mentors, Books of the Century Catalogue, Writing Educational Biography, and Stories of the Eight-Year Study, as well as his research projects with the Spencer and Rockefeller foundations) are exemplary of the essence of biographical and documentary work.
Craig's intellectual curiosity is boundless, and his ethical ambitions bottomless. He is a humanist whose focus is all the things that human beings construct, develop, and create, including music, education, and art, but also work, culture, language, and imagination.
Craig is an institution builder, and he brings his artist's sensibility and his humanist's heart to all his efforts. His leadership around the work on autobiography and biography, narrative and oral history, is exemplary. His steady and sustained focus and interest in particular people and specific historic moments has allowed him to create an astonishing body of work that has depth and breadth, complexity and nuance. But perhaps what stands out the most is his incredible generosity: intellectual, spiritual, personal, with students, colleagues, associates, and friends.
Craig is the embodiment of an engaged humanist intellectual who leads with compassion and kindness as much as with the weight of his thought. For both his stellar contributions to the SIG and to biographical and documentary research, Professor Kridel should be acknowledged for distinguished contributions.