Leaders in Educational Research : Intellectual Self Portraits by Fellows of the International Academy of Education.

Intro -- Leaders in Educational Research: Intellectual Self Portraits by Fellows of the International Academy of Education -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction -- It's a Bit Hard to Believe: Refl ections on an Unforseen Career Trajectory -- A Globalizing, Optimistic-Pessimistic Educational Researcher -- Growing a Theory of the Developing Mind - In and Around the Ivory Tower -- Becoming a Research Methodologist and Psychometrician: Chances, Opportunities, and Infl uences -- Serendipity and an Accidental Psychometrician -- Finding the Right Focus -- Becoming an Educational Researcher, as Mexican Education Became a Field of Research for the Social Sciences -- The Development of a (Philosophical) Disillusionist -- Biography of a Restless Scholar -- Play: A Basis for Becoming an Educational Researcher -- Finding the Words - An Anthropology of Educational Becoming -- The Development of a Promoter of Higher Education Research -- The Making of an Educational Economist in a Country in Transition -- Autobiography of an Inadvertent Educational Researcher.

In this volume fourteen fellows of the International Academy of Education, whose research work is known internationally, reflect upon the ways in which their careers have been shaped by early family influences, by random events and surprise opportunities, and by nascent intellectual interests and academic mentoring.

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