Vitae Scholasticae
Editor: Linda Morice, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Assistant Editor: Laurel Puchner, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
The editors are interested in receiving research-based articles, book reviews and review essays.
Journal Submissions
The journal welcomes submissions under the broad umbrella of educational biography. We include research into the lives of educators and those whose lives are educative, including traditional biographical accounts as well as additional biographical methods such as narrative, oral history, autobiography, ethnography, autoethnography, self-study.
All manuscripts must be prepared according to the Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition). Vitae Scholasticae uses the Notes method rather than the Author-Date method. Please consult the Style Guidelines for more information.
Manuscripts should be a maximum of 30 pages in length (including references), double-spaced, printed in 12-point font and have a 1 inch margin on all sides. Authors may submit manuscripts electronically (preferred!) or in hard copy. For electronic submissions, Microsoft Word files are accepted. All identifying information (author’s name, affiliation, position, fax number and e-mail address) should be submitted in a separate electronic file. For hardcopy submissions, authors should submit three copies of their manuscripts, accompanied by a cover sheet containing the author’s name, affiliation, position, fax number and e-mail address.
Identifying information should not appear in the manuscript in order to ensure impartial review. Manuscripts are reviewed anonymously by at least two members of the Editorial Board or affiliates. All submissions are acted upon as quickly as possible. Usually, decisions are made within 3 months. All statements of fact or points of view in articles are the responsibility of authors and do not represent any official position of the International Society for Educational Biography.
Hardcopy submissions should be directed to:
Professor Linda C. Morice
Department of Educational Leadership
Campus Box 1125
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edwardsville, Illinois 62026-1125
USA
Electronic submissions should be directed to: lmorice@siue.edu
Book Review Guidelines
Books reviewed for Vitae Scholasticae should fit within the topical guidelines of the journal (please see above). Reviews of one book should not exceed 1000 words. Reviews of two books should not exceed 1500 words. Review essays of two or more books should not exceed 2000 words.
Reviews should normally include the following: a concise summary of the book, a description or analysis of the research methodology, and a consideration of the author’s intentions, analysis, frame(s) of reference and assumed audience.
Be sure all bibliographic information is included: title, author, year of publication, publishing information, number of pages, ISBN# and retail price.
Reviewers should be fair and forthright in their reviews. They should avoid dwelling on typographical or other minor errors unless these substantially undermine the quality of the book.
Book reviews will not undergo blind, peer review. The editors reserve the right to make small editorial changes without consultation with the author. Requests for revisions will be made as necessary and as time allows. All final decisions to publish any review rests with the editors.
Book review editor: Naomi Norquay, York University
Sample Topics
In order to give those interested in submitting an article to the journal a sense of the range of topics possible, the editors have included the table of contents from back issues of Vitae Scholasticae.
Volume 22, Number 1, Spring 2005
Esther Burnett Horne, Shoshone Educator
Cynthia B. Leung
The 49th and Other Parallels in the Temperance Authobiographies
of Letia Youmans (Canada 1893) and Frances Willard (U.S. 1889)
Dorothy Lander
Creating Home and Country:
The Centennial Life of Emma Ducie
Sharon Elliott
The Progressive Legacy of Flora White
Linda C. Morice
Boyd H. Bode and the Social Aims of Education
Robert V. Bullough
Politics and Principles:
Joseph Kinmont Hart and the University of Washington
Deron Boyles
Autobiography and Identity:
Six Speculations
Carl Leggo
Sisters in Mind Early Networking for the Advancement of Women’s Education:
Emma Willard’s French Connection
Simona Badilescu
Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2004
Light and Shadow:
Four Reasons for Writing (and Not Writing) Autobiographically
Carl Leggo
A Philosopher Turned Educator:
Jose Vasconcelos and Mexican Public Education, 1920-1924
Mike Boone and Charles L. Slater
The Voice and Vision of the Peacock:
Flannery O’Conner Speaks
Rita E. Guare
British Child Emigration to Canada, 1869-1933
Margaret McNay
Joseph Zoble’s Autobiographical Novel Black Shack Alley:
Education as a Catalyst against the Politics of Colonial Oppression
Robert W. Bernard
Three Rs in Auto/Biography – Write; Right; and Rite:
The Imperatives of Narrative within Postcoloniality in Jamaica’s Kincaid’s The Autobriography of My Mother
Julie Minkler Tsivakou
Volume 20, Number 1, Spring 2001
The Life of Elise Boulding:
Educating toward a Culture of Peace
Mary Lee Morrison
John Dewey:
The Quest for Growth
Stanley K. Ivie
Fox (Kuriwa) and Tiger (Imana):
An Experiment in Literacy and Missions in Panama, 1957-1980
Harvey Neufeldt
Maria’s Story:
Surviving Stalinist Gulag
Antonina Lukenchuk
Mary Parker Follett:
Prophet, Practitioner, or Postmodernist?
Helen D. Armstrong
Volume 19, Number 2, Fall 2000
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin
Teresa Ward
An Accidental Educator:
Laura Bragg’s Vision of the Museum as a Progressive Reform Institution
Louise Anderson Allen
Charles A. McMurry:
A Life and Concepts
James E. Akenson
A Most Un-ordinary Life:
Growing Up Middle Class
Naomi Norquay
Zarathustra’s Pedagogy:
Lessons for None and All
Jonathan Neufeld
Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2000
A Lion in the Hennery:
Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Los Angeles Public Library, 1905-1910
Debra Gold Hansen
My Famous Kate Pierce:
Biographies of and in the Archive
Evelyn Kerslake
Quiet Pioneers:
Black Women Public Librarians in the Segregated South
Cheryl Knott Malone
Constructing the Audiovisual Educator:
A Gender Sensitive Analysis of Audiotapes
Rebecca P. Butler & Lucy F. Townsend
Review:
Hildenbrand, Suzanne, ed., 1996
Reclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women
Reviewed by JoAnne McClenning
Review:
Lasky, Kathryn, 1994
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
Reviewed by Meredith Carlson