Author reviewed the life of the architect of Summerhill and evaluated Neill's contributions to education. (RK)

Analyzes books in black literature selected to represent certain main lines of development in autobiography, fiction, poetry and criticism; the essay is limited in its coverage to books bearing a 1972 copyright. (Author/JM)

This essay criticizes both scientific and polemic history for not focusing upon historical change, and offers a possible alternative. (Author/MF)

Identifies--and labels as elegiac romance"--a group of 19th and 20th century American, English, and European novels in which a narrator relates the story of a heroic, questing figure to whom he is committed in attempting to overcome the effect of loss which results from" the hero's death. (Author/RD)

Annotates six adult books of interest to high school students. Book subjects include Martha's Vineyard, growing up in the Great Depression, feral cats, and World War II. (FL)

Investigated how people with congenital orthopedic disabilities intially learn that they are different and how they learn the evaluative meaning associated with being disabled. Analyzed the content of 29 autobiographies. Results indicated that people born with orthopedic disabilities discover between ages 3 and 5 that they are different. (Author)

Describes the family, the Greek community, and traces his life growing up Greek in America. (AM)

During fall semester of their senior year, preservice elementary teachers evaluated their mastery of mathematics and teaching methods and wrote an autobiography of their school mathematics experiences. This process helped the prospective teachers gain insight into their own strengths and weaknesses and improved rapport with the methods course…

Describes ideas for writing prompts and assignments proposed by three different teachers: (1) writing poems inspired by smells of herbs and spices; (2) writing about past perceptions and feelings after looking at a photograph; and (3) writing a "self-portrait." (TB)

Discusses the perspectives of historical text as evolving from respective historical representation. Explores methods of educational history through writings, documents, biographies, autobiographies, issues of source and technicalities, and historian viewpoints. Offers that historian's voices must be positioned critically and reflectively at the…

Examines how the use of autobiography can inform a critical pragmatic pedagogical practice where educators can read the complex and contingent interplay of raced, gendered, and classed discourses. Advocates a critical rhetorical and pragmatist approach that integrates recent questionings of subjectivity in poststructuralist feminist and postmodern…

Suggests that reflective academic texts highlight the ways in which relationships between writers and their diverse audiences are established. Examines memoirs and autobiographically inflected texts that establish connections between writers and readers by enlarging the notion of individual subjectivity, in particular by mobilizing categories of…

Provides an annotated 44-item bibliography for educators who want to increase their knowledge of alcohol and other drugs and to devise prevention measures for schools and classrooms. General information and autobiographical texts are included. Also included are texts that provide specific directions for preventing alcohol and drug abuse. (BJV)