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Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics

The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson

By: Ivor Goodson

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Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics

The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson

By: Ivor Goodson

Having spent the last thirty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key issues in education, Professor Ivor Goodson presents twenty of his most important writings in this single volume.

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Improving Learning through the Lifecourse

Learning Lives

By: Gert Biesta,John Field,Phil Hodkinson,Flora J. Macleod,Ivor F. Goodson

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Improving Learning through the Lifecourse

Learning Lives

By: Gert Biesta,John Field,Phil Hodkinson,Flora J. Macleod,Ivor F. Goodson

Adult learning matters. There is now widespread agreement that modern countries depend on the creativity, skills and knowledge of the entire population for their prosperity. Many people talk of our future well-being in terms of a ‘knowledge economy’ or a ‘learning society’ in which every person’s ability to develop new capabilities will provide them with resources that will help them and the wider community to adapt and thrive. While in theory this makes lifelong learning into an exciting prospect, in practice this broad agenda is often reduced to a narrowly economic conception. This book reports on one of the largest research projects into lifelong learning conducted in recent years. Through over 500 in-depth interviews with a cohort of about 120 adults who were followed for three years, the Learning Lives project has built up a detailed understanding of what learning means and does in the lives of adults. The project has generated insights in how learning has changed over time and across generations, what the connections are with the changing world of work, what differences learning makes for life chances, how we can learn from life and for life, and how people’s prospects of learning can be improved. Combining life history and life-course research with analysis of longitudinal survey data, this book provides important insights into the learning biographies and trajectories of adults. The book shows that learning means and does much more in people’s lives than is often acknowledged by current education policy and politics. In doing so, it is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the role and potential of learning through the lifecourse.

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1136809767

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Developing Narrative Theory

Life Histories and Personal Representation

By: Ivor Goodson

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Developing Narrative Theory

Life Histories and Personal Representation

By: Ivor Goodson

This title looks at the contemporary need to study life narratives, considers the emergence and salience of life narratives in contemporary culture, and discusses different forms of narrativity.

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0415603617

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Subject Knowledge

Readings For The Study Of School Subjects

By: Christopher J. Anstead,Ivor F Goodson,J. Marshall Mangan

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Subject Knowledge

Readings For The Study Of School Subjects

By: Christopher J. Anstead,Ivor F Goodson,J. Marshall Mangan

This text attempts to account for the growth of increased interest by sociologists and others in school subjects since the 1960s. Goodson's analysis of his own work examines the range of insights afforded of the nature of schooling and teaching through the study of school subjects.

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1135712069

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School Subjects and Curriculum Change

By: Ivor F. Goodson

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School Subjects and Curriculum Change

By: Ivor F. Goodson

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 their formation and accreditation to competing status and their power to compete in the provision of 'worthwhile' knowledge and considers subjects as continually changing sub-groups of information. Such subjects from the framework of the society in which individuals live and over which they have influence. This volume questions the basis on which subject disciplines are developed and formulates new possibilities for curriculum development and reform in a post-modrnist age.

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1135722412

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Studying School Subjects

A Guide

By: Ivor F. Goodson,Colin J. Marsh

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Studying School Subjects

A Guide

By: Ivor F. Goodson,Colin J. Marsh

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1135715777

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Teachers' Professional Lives

By: Ivor F. Goodson

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Teachers' Professional Lives

By: Ivor F. Goodson

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Narrative Learning

By: Ivor F. Goodson,Gert Biesta,Michael Tedder,Norma Adair

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Narrative Learning

By: Ivor F. Goodson,Gert Biesta,Michael Tedder,Norma Adair

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

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Democracy, Education and Research

The Struggle for Public Life

By: John Schostak,Ivor F. Goodson

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Democracy, Education and Research

The Struggle for Public Life

By: John Schostak,Ivor F. Goodson

Considering how practices and processes of research and education can create fundamental, radical social change, Democracy, Education and Research assesses the meaning of ‘public impact‘ by rethinking what is meant by ‘public‘ and how it is essential to the methodologies of education and research. Focusing on empirical illustrations of the use of research and educational processes in contemporary and emergent forms of social organisation, this book: Covers the traditional forms to be found in education, health systems, community, business and public institutions, as well as emergent forms arising from innnovation in technologies. Explores the forms of learning and knowledge creation that take place across the everyday interactions in places of learning, communities or workplaces Discusses how learning and knowledge can be intentionally shaped by individuals and groups to effect social and political change Considers the research strategies required to forge new practices, new ways of working and living for a more socially just world Including practical examples of research that has created real change, Democracy, Education and Research will be a vital resource to professional researchers in their roles as teachers, educators and activists as well as students of education, sociology, politics, cultural studies.

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1136733752

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The Making of Curriculum

Collected Essays

By: Ivor Goodson

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The Making of Curriculum

Collected Essays

By: Ivor Goodson

This is a new, updated version of Ivor Goodson's earlier work which explores A Number Of Aspects Of The "Invention" And Promotion Of So-Called "traditional" subjects. It has now been extended and has been updated to include the National Curriculum.

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0750703210

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Curriculum, Personal Narrative and the Social Future

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Curriculum, Personal Narrative and the Social Future

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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 public sector 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. In education a pattern has emerged in many countries around the world. Each new government enshrines targets and tests to ensure that teachers at the frontline delivery are ‘more accountable’. Whilst this often provides evidence of symbolic action to the electorate or professional audiences, the evidence at the level of service delivery is often far less impressive. Targets, tests and tables may win wide support from the public, but there are often negligible or even contradictory effects at the point of delivery, enforced by the ignorance or denial of personal missions and biographical mandates. This book locates most of its analysis and discussion at the point of culture clash between centralised dictates, and individual and collective life missions. Whilst the early part of the book considers a range of issues related to school curriculum, the focus on the biographical and life narrative becomes increasingly important as the analysis proceeds. Curriculum, Personal Narrative and the Social Future will be of key interest to practising teachers, educational researchers and students on teacher training courses, postgraduate courses and doctoral courses.

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Life Politics

By: Ivor F. Goodson

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Life Politics

By: Ivor F. Goodson

This book on life politics comprises a collection of interviews and commentaries. The notion of life politics covers a number of different meanings within the book. Most importantly is the way that the genre of interviews helps cover a range of cultural contexts and intellectual milieu. Part of the life politics represented in this book is built around the belief that if we are to act as public intellectuals in the field of education and culture in the current globalised setting we need to travel. This book shows how public intellectual work gets interrogated and implemented in different social and cultural settings.

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Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics

The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson

By: Ivor Goodson

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The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson

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Through the Schoolhouse Door

By: Ivor F. Goodson,Christopher J. Anstead

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Through the Schoolhouse Door

By: Ivor F. Goodson,Christopher J. Anstead

The authors make a case for tracing the history of classroom and curriculum, using a variety of ways to examine the history, the institutional structures, and everyday life in the school.

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Biography, Identity, and Schooling

Episodes in Educational Research

By: Ivor Goodson,Rob Walker

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Biography, Identity, and Schooling

Episodes in Educational Research

By: Ivor Goodson,Rob Walker

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 point for setting new directions. The book is a restatement of the central role of people in educational systems.

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1850008027

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Teachers' Professional Lives

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Teachers' Professional Lives

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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Investigating the Teacher's Life and Work

By: Ivor F. Goodson

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Investigating the Teacher's Life and Work

By: Ivor F. Goodson

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.

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Curriculum, Personal Narrative and the Social Future

By: Ivor F. Goodson

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Narrative Learning

By: Ivor F. Goodson,Gert Biesta,Michael Tedder,Norma Adair

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Narrative Learning

By: Ivor F. Goodson,Gert Biesta,Michael Tedder,Norma Adair

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 learning? Based on data gathered for the Learning Lives project, which sought to understand learning by questioning individuals about their life stories, this book seeks to define a new learning theory which focuses on the role of narrative and narration in learning. Through a number of detailed case-studies based on longitudinal interviews conducted over three and four-year periods with a wide range of life story informants, Narrative Learning highlights the role of narrative and narration in an individual’s learning and understanding of how they act in the world. The authors explore a domain of learning and human subjectivity which is vital but currently unexplored in learning and teaching and seek to re-position learning within the ongoing preoccupation with identity and agency. The ‘interior conversations’ whereby a person defines their personal thoughts and courses of action and creates their own stories and life missions, is situated at the heart of a person’s map of learning and understanding of their place in the world. The insights presented seek to show that most people spend a significant amount of time rehearsing and recounting their life-story, which becomes a strong influence on their actions and agency, and an important site of learning in itself. Narrative Learning seeks to shift the focus of learning from the prescriptivism of a strongly defined curriculum to accommodate personal narrative styles and thereby encourage engagement and motivation in the learning process. Hence the book has radical and far-reaching implications for existing Governmental policies on school curriculum. The book will be of particular interest to professionals, educational researchers, policy-makers, undergraduate and postgraduate learners and all of those involved with education theory, CPD, adult education and lifelong learning.

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Developing Narrative Theory

Life Histories and Personal Representation

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Narrative Pedagogy

Life History and Learning

By: Ivor Goodson,Scherto Gill

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Narrative Pedagogy

Life History and Learning

By: Ivor Goodson,Scherto Gill

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 this trend by using life history and narrative approaches and methods. As we move on from the modernist period which prioritised objectivity into the postmodern regard for subjectivity, this resort to narrative is likely to become more apparent and explicit in academic as well as social and commercial discourse. One aspect of this narrative form which is commonly overlooked is that of the pedagogic encounter. This is the phenomenon which is addressed by all narrative and biographical research. Fundamentally reflecting and examining the narrative of our lives in the process of learning, this book provides a series of studies and guidelines for what we have termed 'narrative pedagogy.' It presents a resource for an exploration of those narrative processes that can lead to meaningful change and development for individuals and groups within a learning environment and in life-learning. This focus on life history allows us to identify and support routes to learning within the narrative landscape of learners and through these pedagogic encounters.

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1433108917

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School Subjects and Curriculum Change

By: Ivor F. Goodson

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School Subjects and Curriculum Change

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The process of curriculum development is highly practical, as Goodson shows in this enlarged anniversary third edition. This book questions the basis on which subjects are developed and formulates new possibilities for development.

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Narrative Learning

By: Ivor F Goodson,Gert Biesta,Michael Tedder,Norma Adair

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Through the Schoolhouse Door

By: Ivor F. Goodson,Christopher J. Anstead

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By: Ivor F. Goodson,Christopher J. Anstead

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Life Politics

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Subject Knowledge

Readings For The Study Of School Subjects

By: Christopher J. Anstead,Ivor F Goodson,J. Marshall Mangan

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Readings For The Study Of School Subjects

By: Christopher J. Anstead,Ivor F Goodson,J. Marshall Mangan

School knowledge has been a subject for historians, notably in the field of history of education. concentrating on the educational aspects of particular historical periods, however, links with contemporary education have often remained undeveloped.; This text attempts to account for the growth of increased interest by sociologists and others in school subjects since the 1960s. Goodson's analysis of his own work in the UK and North America examines the range of insights afforded of the nature of schooling and teaching through the study of school subjects.

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1135712050

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Teachers' Lives And Careers

By: Stephen J Ball,Ivor F Goodson

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Teachers' Lives And Careers

By: Stephen J Ball,Ivor F Goodson

This volume explores the contemporary situation of teachers' careers and teachers' lives in the context of falling roles, educational cuts and government demands for fundamental change in educational processes.

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