Biographies for Youth

• In Event: Doing Research in Life-Writing and Education: Diverse Perspectives in Methodology

Abstract

Summary:
This session provides a space for researchers to discuss the various complexities in carrying out life writing projects. This dialogue focuses on doing examining authors and messages in biography in youth literature. The facilitator will set the stage for the discussion through introducing varied puzzles, issues, and questions that scholars have encountered in doing research in the field. Panelists and audience members can then pose questions and share strategies from their own field encounters.

Author

• KaaVonia Hinton, Old Dominion University
  Presenting Author