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In the past decade or so, there has been an increasing interest in employing a combination of archival and life history methods to understand the complexities of schooling. This book explores the history of the Beal Technical School in order to discuss the methods and problems involved in researching the story of an institution. It offers the scholar and practitioner a series of practical guidelines and examples for doing such research. At the...

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The process of curriculum development is highly practical, as Goodson shows in this enlarged anniversary third edition of his seminal work. The position of subjects and their development within the curriculum is illustrated by looking at how school subjects, in particular, geography and biology, gained academic and intellectual respectability within the whole curriculum during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He highlights how subjects owe thei...

This text provides a discussion of the meaning of teacher professionalism and how it can be improved.

This book represents a timely reassessment of the narrative trends of the 21st century, detailing how theories of narrativity and life story analysis can combine to inform learning potential and developing courses of action.

Recent writing on education and social change, and a growing number of new governmental initiatives across Western societies have proceeded in denial or ignorance of the personal missions and biographical trajectories of key personnel. This book stems from an underpinning belief that we have to understand the personal biographical if we are to understand the fate of social and political initiatives.

School subjects and how they are viewed and positioned within education is the focus of this text. It argues that, as part of rethinking the whole school curriculum, there has been a failure to look at the historical and social background of school subjects.

School subjects and how they are viewed and positioned within education is the focus of this text. It argues that, as part of rethinking the whole school curriculum, there has been a failure to look at the historical and social background of school subjects.

This text provides a discussion of the meaning of teacher professionalism and how it can be improved.

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Based on data gathered for the Learning Lives project, which sought to understand learning by questioning individuals about their life histories, this book defines a fresh learning theory, based on the life-story narrative.

Investigating the Teacher's Life and Work attempts to bring together the methodological and substantive aspects of studying the teacher's life and work. Some of the chapters in the book provide a "how to do" approach for those wishing to study the teacher's life and work employing a life history method, whilst other chapters provide the kind of substantive and generic findings which might be anticipated when conducting life history work. Th...

Studying Curriculum" offers a practical approach for analyzing the inescapable political realities of the contemporary curriculum. It should remind the reader that what is socially constructed can also be deconstructed and reconstructed, and that notions of social equity and justice can be reconstituted within school curricula. Ivor Goodson explores how and by whom the curriculum is controlled. He examines how social class, historical and poli...