This paper discusses the educational and social philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft, an English writer of the 18th century. Her works included "Vindication of the Rights of Man," and her best know work, "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" which was published in 1792 and consisted of the first sustained argument for female…

This monograph deals with the many contributions of J. R. Kidd to adult learning on a world scale. In Part 1, a number of scholars, family members, and friends comment upon specific events they witnessed in Kidd's life. This anecdotal, biographical, and historical section begins with an introduction by Nancy J. Cochrane and personal accounts from…

Described is the education of an individual who was born in a remote village in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. It tells how a young boy progressed from a village, where the language spoken did not have names for numbers, to the position of tutor in mathematics at a university. The story is felt to resemble many others in the rapidly…

The research study investigated common psychological traits and conditions of more than 200 men (historically recognized as highly eminent) born between the 14th and 20th centuries. It was concluded that the childhood traits and conditions are possible clues or indications of adult eminence rather than certain predictors. (SB)

Work-related self-identities are central to middle leaders' work. Their development takes place in social, policy and personal contexts. At the core of middle leaders' work-related identities lie values that guide how they interact with colleagues, students and senior management staff when trying to shape and implement departmental and school…

Drawing on a single case study in the Transforming Learning Cultures in Further Education (TLC-FE) project, discussed in the introduction to this volume, this article explores contrasting perspectives of tutors' and students' experiences of a General National Vocational Qualification (GNVQ). The "case in point" is an Intermediate level…

Examined each book in 8 basal reading series (preprimers to sixth readers) to determine the variety of types of writing in these 1983 basals. Texts were examined for the number of selections representing narrative, poetry, plays, exposition, biography, hybrid writing types and for the number of pages devoted to each type of writing. (Author/NH)

A study examined the effects of the student teaching experience on the pupil control ideologies of student teachers and attempted to assess the contributions of biography and social structure. Results indicated that cooperating teachers exerted little influence, but that biography and social structure played an important role in the socialization…

Vocational exploration can be facilitated through reading and identifying with persons in novels and biographies. Faculty and librarians listed works for students seeking a fuller sense of how it feels to work in a particular vocation. Recommendations were collated into an annotated bibliography. Limitations and responses are discussed.…

Discusses the traditional approach to writing science textbooks, the situation preceding the National Curriculum, and the effect of the National Curriculum. Summarizes the historical content of current science textbooks including biographical narratives and human interest material, accounts of scientific discoveries, and the history and…

Biographies of 177 American nursing leaders who were born before 1890 r deceased by 1988 were analyzed to identify commonalities in their backgrounds. Similarities in background characteristics were found when they were compared with achievers of Renaissance Italy, eighteenth-century Scotland, and nineteenth-century German Jews. (Author/MLW)

In this article, information collected from two undergraduates serves as an example of how the study of preservice teachers' biographies can inform teacher preparation. (IAH)

Explores the extent to which the five basic impression management strategies of ingratiation, self-promotion, intimidation, exemplification, and supplication were associated with transformational leadership by undergraduate students who read biographies of world-class leaders. Finds exemplification and ingratiation were positively related (and…

Charles Alexander Eastman remains an enigmatic figure in the early days of American Indian activism--a man whose contributions, while unimpeachable in terms of devotion and good will, are often complicated by the lingering shadow of assimilationist values evident in his writings and his career as one of the so-called "red progressives." Eastman…

Social historians are taught that historical changes are caused by large social and economic forces, rather than great individuals; and so they study groups of people, broad economic movements, and underlying institutional structures that change slowly over time. But the general public demands information about the individual person told through…