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Ivor Goodson and Scherto Gill analyse and discuss a series of trans-disciplinary case studies from diverse cultures and argue that narrative is not on...
The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson
Having spent the last thirty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key issues in education, Professor Ivor Goodson presents twenty...
Episodes in Educational Research
In this book the authors relate their work on curriculum reform to the succession of changes in the sociology of education, using it as a starting poi...
Life Histories and Personal Representation
This title looks at the contemporary need to study life narratives, considers the emergence and salience of life narratives in contemporary culture, a...
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Life History and Learning
It is widely recognised that we are living through an 'age of the narrative'. Many of the constituent disciplines in the social sciences resonate with...
Investigating the Teacher’s Life and Work attempts to bring together the methodological and substantive aspects of studying the teacher’s life and...
What is the role of narrative in how people learn throughout their lives? Are there different patterns and forms of narrativity? How do they influence...
This book on life politics comprises a collection of interviews and commentaries. The notion of life politics covers a number of different meanings wi...
Originally published in 1985. ‘Europe‘ and the EEC seemed to be virtually synonymous for the majority of our population and the ambivalent feeling...
The process of curriculum development is highly practical, as Goodson shows in this enlarged anniversary third edition. This book questions the basis ...
Recent writing on education and social change, and a growing number of new governmental initiatives across Western societies have proceeded in denial ...
This volume explores the contemporary situation of teachers' careers and teachers' lives in the context of falling roles, educational cuts and governm...
Readings for the Study of School Subjects
This text attempts to account for the growth of increased interest by sociologists and others in school subjects since the 1960s. Goodson's analysis o...
A Transformative Vision for Human Well-Being
Well-being studies is an exciting and relatively new multi-disciplinary field, with data being gathered from different domains in order to improve soc...
This book presents a multi-faceted approach to a case study of a secondary school, the London Technical and Commercial High School, one of the first v...
The Conditions of Social Change
There are many books focusing upon recipe-like strategies for undertaking research, and there are many books on the politics of change and sustainable...
Culture Clash in Computerized Classrooms
What happens when a new social technology is imposed on the established social technology of the school? This book presents an unusual application of ...