Case Study 15. Reading the Bones (3): Tracking Life History at Nariokotome

Recent academic research highlights the role of leadership identity when thinking about the improvement of the educational field. Based on this research, this article aims to identify and analyze the elements that affect the development of leadership identity in female school principals within the Chilean context. This is achieved by working from a biographical-narrative approach, specifically from the life history technique. This analysis emerges from a considerate reflection on the teachings, and personal and professional milestones highlighted in the biogram. Both personally and professionally, a multiplicity of elements is observed in the life history of María Eliana, influencing the development of her leadership identity, particularly highlighting her self-recognition as a woman. This identity is oriented towards social justice, based on socio-emotional tools such as care, empathy, and participation; and understands and values the role these elements must take in Chilean education. The case study presents tensions for the Chilean educational system, which must be able to address the complexities that women experience while holding leadership positions, especially when challenged with the perspective that school is an inclusive space of social justice.

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The Single Case Study: Understanding the Life History of a Tuskegee Syphilis Study Descendant

10.4135/9781473997189 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tina K. Sacks

Keyword(s):

Life History ◽

Single Case ◽

Single Case Study ◽

Tuskegee Syphilis Study ◽

History Of

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Court Jews, Printers, Book Publishing, and the Beginning of the Haskalah in the German Lands: The Life History of the Wulffian Printing Press as a Case-Study

European Journal of Jewish Studies ◽

10.1163/1872471x-11211040 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 1-55

Author(s):

Gad Freudenthal

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Life History ◽

Book Publishing ◽

Printing Press ◽

Continuous Contact ◽

The Press ◽

History Of ◽

Guide Of The Perplexed

Abstract This article presents the history of a printing press that operated at several places near Berlin during the first half of the eighteenth century, culminating in the epoch-making reprinting of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed in 1742. The press was established in Dessau in 1694 by the court Jew Moses Wulff (1661–1729), and was run by several printers, notably the convert Israel b. Abraham (fl. 1715–1752). Using the trajectory of the Wulff press as a case study, I examine the relations between scholars, patrons of learning (especially court Jews), printers, and book publishing. The inquiry will highlight the considerable role that court Jews played in shaping the Jewish bookshelf, notably by choosing which books (reprints and original) would be funded. Surprisingly perhaps, although court Jews were in continuous contact with the environing culture, they did not usually favor the printing of non-traditional Jewish works that would favor a rapprochement.

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