>>Alan Peshkin (Buddy) died yesterday after a yearlong struggle
>>with a particularly aggressive brain cancer. Until two weeks
>>ago, he was meeting his classes at Stanford, conferring with
>>students and colleagues, and actively collecting source
>>materials for his projected book on Muslims and their schools
>>in America. Until two days ago, his perceptiveness and keen
>>sense of humor had not left him; it was a pleasure to be in
>>his lively and alert company.
>>
>>Peshkin's books and articles focused on qualitative research
>>methods and relationships between school and community. Case
>>studies were his mÈtier. On schools and their communities,
>>one book centered on a school in a Native American community;
>>another was about one in rural, east-central Illinois; a
>>third focused on a high school in a stable multi-ethnic mid-
>>sized city in California; a fourth on a fundamentalist
>>Christian school; and a fifth on a private, residential
>>school for elites (Permissible Advantage? The moral
>>consequences of elite schooling, Erlbaum, 2001). In
>>collecting data, he and his wife Maryann lived for at least a
>>year in and with the community that he was studying. They
>>shopped locally, attended religious services, and developed
>>close relationships with civic leaders as well as teachers
>>and students. His writing on qualitative research tended to
>>focus on matters of subjectivity in scholarly inquiry.
>>Articles in press, which he developed and completed during
>>the last year of his life, are scheduled for publication in
>>Educational Researcher and Qualitative Inquiry.
>>
>>Peshkin's early scholarly contributions were in comparative
>>education and included a book on Nigerian school children and
>>articles about schools in Pakistan. His career took him to
>>the University of Illinois in the 1960s and to the Center for
>>Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Stanford
>>University in the 90s. He was 69 when he died.
>>
>>J. Myron Atkin
>>School of Education
>>Stanford University
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