Ivor Goodson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 181648 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ivor Goodson |
| NOMBRES | Ivor |
| APELLIDO | Goodson |
| FIRMA | GOODSON I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6839-9490 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 131 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Imitation as inevitability or imagination as alternative? Global higher education paradoxes through a Lithuanian lens
Historical and Cultural Refractions in Recent Education Transitions
Thirty years after the demise of the Soviet bloc, there still persists a rhetoric of differentiation and a discursive polarisation between the Western and the non-Western educational thinking and practices. This rhetoric overshadows a potential similarity, or homogeneity, between the dominant and several marginalised contexts. Regional, local and personal variations are prematurely attributed to fundamental, if often poorly argued, cultural diffe…
Refrações históricas e culturais nas transições educacionais recentes
Trinta anos após a queda do bloco soviético, ainda persiste uma retórica de diferenciação e polarização discursiva entre os padrões educacionais ocidentais e não ocidentais. Tal retórica ofusca uma semelhança potencial, ou homogeneidade, entre os diversos contextos dominantes e marginalizados. Variações regionais, locais e pessoais são prematuramente atribuídas a diferenças culturais fundamentais, embora muitas vezes mal fundamentadas. Procuramos…
Rural Working-Class Males in Sweden and Reading
This article explores the intersection of place-based reading practices of rural working-class males and reading practices in school. Life story interviews have been conducted with six men in different ages (age 19-63) living in a rural region in Sweden, focusing on their reflections on their own relation to reading across a life span from the standpoint of the present. The analysis shows that there is a unique combination of factors at work when…
Brief Encounters
This paper will investigate patterns of historical periodisation with regard to public intellectual work. It will begin with a focus on educational studies and with a specific case study of the Centre for Applied Research in Education (CARE) at the University of East Anglia. The case study will highlight the roles of leading public intellectuals such as Lawrence Stenhouse and explore the genre of applied research. The notion of applied research i…
Curriculum as narrative
We live in a time of global crisis where social isolation is required and necessary. Nevertheless, and paradoxically, it has never been more crucial to show how cross-cultural boundaries can create meaningful educational and curricular experiences. In this article we present the life history of an indigenous teacher living in the Xingu Park in Brazil. His narrative illuminates the discussion of essential notions of pre-configured curriculum, curr…
"Oi Iv, como vai? Boa sorte na escola!" notas (auto)biográficas constitutivas da história de vida de um educador
O artigo trata de relações entre estórias e histórias de vida, abordando para isso possibilidades de interlocução entre ideias já debatidas sobre aprendizagem narrativa e sobre a experiência benjaminiana. Como empeiria, revisita notas (auto)biográficas de um dos autores, originadas de uma entrevista concedida e publicada em 2015, onde sua infância narrada aponta para um tempo futuro no qual o educador mantém seu senso de propósito de justiça soci…
Transnational Perspectives on Curriculum History
"This book offers a remarkable range of research that emphasizes the need to analyse the shaping of curricula under historical, social and political variables. Teachers' life stories, the Cold War as a contextual element that framed curricular transformations in the US and Europe, and the study of trends in education policy at transnational level are issues addressed throughout. The book presents new lines of work, offering multidisciplinary pers…
International Perspectives in Curriculum History
Originally published in 1988. The history of curriculum has now become an extremely important area of curriculum research. The rehabilitation of historical studies has challenged mainstream psychological and philosophical theories of curriculum and it argues for a reformulation of the current dominance of scientific management models of curriculum changes. This book presents comparative data from a range of countries which help define the methodo…
Nostalgia in the narratives of vocational teachers as a way of understanding responses to change
This paper focuses on nostalgia in the narratives of vocational teachers. The aim is to understand the role of nostalgia as a mechanism for adapting to or resisting educational change. The paper is based on the secondary analysis of semi-structured interviews with 30 Estonian vocational teachers. In the teachers’ narratives, the nostalgia for the former vocational education system, which provided more autonomy and empowerment for teachers in thei…
Explorar la historia y la memoria a través de la memoria autobiográfica
The article reviews the role of autobiographical memory as a site of narrative construction. Far from being a place of liberal retrospective recall it is a site of active recapitulation and reconstruction. The article provides examples of how history and memory are intermingled. It also draws in the author’s autobiographical vignettes to explore the underpinning desires for historical reconstruction in autobiographical memory work
The five Rs of educational research
This article proposes a series of ideas to guide future education research and thinking about education, formulated as the 5Rs: remembering, regression, reconceptualisation, reflection, and renewal. Together they can provide at least a partial antidote to the dubious and damaging educational rhetoric associated with the promotion and normalisation of the neoliberal order. Identifying them, and acting on them, represents a useful step towards the …
Education, Capitalism and the Global Crisis
Foreword Stephen J. Ball, Meg Maguire and Ivor F. Goodson 1. Introduction: After the crash Andrew Gamble 2. Summoning spectres: crises and their construction John Clarke and Janet Newman 3. Is greed still good? Was it ever? Exploring the emoscapes of the global financial crisis Jane Kenway and Johannah Fahey 4. The global economic crisis, poverty and education: a perspective from India Geetha B. Nambissan 5. Governments and education reform: some…
Tales of Satisfaction and Disillusionment
We examine the comparative “return” experiences of second-generation Greek-Americans and British-born Greek Cypriots who have relocated to their respective parental homelands of Greece and Cyprus. Sixty individuals, born in the United States or the United Kingdom yet now living in Greece or Cyprus, were interviewed and detailed life narratives recorded. We find both similarities and differences between the two groups. While the broad narrative th…
Developing Narrative Theory
We live in an age of narrative: life stories are a crucial ingredient in what makes us human and, in turn, what kind of human they make us. In recent years, narrative analysis has grown and is used across many areas of research. Interest in this rapidly developing approach now requires the firm theoretical underpinning that would allow researchers to both approach such research in a reliably structured way, and to interpret the results more effec…
What's Wrong with Democracy at the Moment, and Why it Matters for Research and Education
The article provides historical and political background to contemporary issues facing education and research. In doing so, it argues that there has been a fundamental inversion of democracy. What this means is that instead of democracy providing a political framework for the voices of people, it is employed as a cover for the interests of the wealthy. The article explores this inversion, drawing upon the theoretical insights of the Annaliste sch…
Life Politics
Restructuring teachers’ work‐lives and knowledge in England and Spain
This article explores the restructuring of education in England and Spain. Against a presumably homogeneous global streamlining of educational systems according to competition‐driven goals, the comparison of teachers’ work‐lives and professional knowledge evidences a variety of experiences under‐represented in discourses on global restructuring. Our argument highlights how in England political reforms have worked their way deep into the working l…
Times of educational change
One area where the financial crisis has shown the limitation of neo‐liberal thinking is the area of educational reform. By studying the different ranges of national responses and by understanding the differing contexts for educational change in historical periods, we can begin to think differently about educational restructuring. In this paper I report on some of the findings from a four‐year study of educational reforms in seven European countri…
Les enseignants de demain
Cet article dresse un état des lieux de la profession enseignante dans le primaire en Angleterre. À partir de récits, il analyse la façon dont l’enseignement primaire est restructuré et les effets de cette politique sur les enseignants ainsi que sur leurs identités et culture professionnelles. Les données utilisées sont le fruit d’un projet de recherche financé par l’Union européenne. Les discours politiques nationaux ont été juxtaposés aux récit…
Trajetória para o currículo - história pessoal e política social em estudos curriculares
Neste artigo, o campo de estudos de currículo delineia-se por uma escrita biográfica e reflexiva com a qual o autor destaca movimentos de sua vida profissional a partir de registros escritos e lembranças
Tales of Satisfaction and Disillusionment
We examine the comparative “return” experiences of second-generation Greek-Americans and British-born Greek Cypriots who have relocated to their respective parental homelands of Greece and Cyprus. Sixty individuals, born in the United States or the United Kingdom yet now living in Greece or Cyprus, were interviewed and detailed life narratives recorded. We find both similarities and differences between the two groups. While the broad narrative th…
All the lonely people
This paper argues that the ‘new world order’ achieved at the end of the cold war is in crisis, not generated from the threat of ‘war’ between Christian and Islamic worlds but from within western societies, specifically from the growing commercialisation and ‘privatisation’ of social and community life which has uncoupled the systems and activities of society from the collective and individual purposes of people who comprise that society. Drawing …
Currículo, narrativa e o futuro social
Neste artigo, analisam-se processos históricos de mudança de paradigma curricular na Inglaterra a partir de resultados de projetos de pesquisa desenvolvidos pelo autor ao longo dos últimos 20 anos. Os estudos do autor a respeito de história das disciplinas escolares permitem, entre outras caracterizações, reconhecer que a relação entre currículo prescritivo e a aprendizagem primária de um conteúdo predeterminado é um jogo que está chegando ao fim…
Educational Change Over Time? The Sustainability and Nonsustainability of Three Decades of Secondary School Change and Continuity
Purpose: This article presents the conceptual framework, methodological design, and key research findings from a Spencer Foundation-funded project of long-term educational change over time. Research Design: Based on more than 200 interviews, supplementary observations, and extensive archival data, it examines perceptions and experiences of educational change in eight high schools in the United States and Canada among teachers and administrators w…
The Story of Life History
For some time psychologists have been employing life history methods in their work. Perhaps the key publication in this regard is Erik Erikson 's (1975)book Life History and the Historical Moment. In fact, life history methods were pioneered by anthropologists and taken up with considerable enthusiasm by sociologists. A central location for the pioneering of life history methods by sociologists was the Chicago School in the 1930s.A range of innov…
Currículo, narrativa e o futuro social
Neste artigo, analisam-se processos históricos de mudança de paradigma curricular na Inglaterra a partir de resultados de projetos de pesquisa desenvolvidos pelo autor ao longo dos últimos 20 anos. Os estudos do autor a respeito de história das disciplinas escolares permitem, entre outras caracterizações, reconhecer que a relação entre currículo prescritivo e a aprendizagem primária de um conteúdo predeterminado é um jogo que está chegando ao fim…
The story so far
This paper looks critically at a number of forms of inquiry that are now developing in the field of teacher education. Narrative methods and starving are two associated genres that have emerged forcefully in the past decade as ways of seeking to represent the lived experience of schooling. It is because of the very potential of these methodologies to bring us closer to the experience of schooling that our scrutiny should focus sharply upon both t…
Times of educational change
One area where the financial crisis has shown the limitation of neo‐liberal thinking is the area of educational reform. By studying the different ranges of national responses and by understanding the differing contexts for educational change in historical periods, we can begin to think differently about educational restructuring. In this paper I report on some of the findings from a four‐year study of educational reforms in seven European countri…
The Educational Researcher as a Public Intellectual
As education and schooling are themselves repositioned and restratified in the new global work order, so research on education is itself repositioned. In such a situation, even if people go on researching as they researched before, their work may have been repositioned: sometimes so as to substantially shift, or even invert, the relevance and effect of that work. A crisis of positionality arises at this point because of the reconstitution and rep…
Studying the teacher's life and work
Becoming an Academic Subject
The paper begins by briefly summarising the kind of contemporary accounts of school subjects which arise from sociological and philosophical perspectives. It is argued that socio‐historical investigation into the process of ‘becoming an academic subject’ will provide insights through which to review these accounts. The main core of the paper provides a case study of the evolution of Geography. The Subject begins as a low‐status school Subject str…
Representing teachers
Subject Cultures and the Introduction of Classroom Computers
What has often been missing in research on classroom computers is an appreciation for the challenge which microcomputers may present to the well‐established cultures and subcultures of schools, and in particular to subject subcultures. This paper reports on recent research which attempted to assess some of the reciprocal effects of classroom computing and the context and culture of schooling. The distinctive characteristics of three subject areas…
On Curriculum Form
Academic L Middle and Upper Body of Knowledge to Be Transmitted T Classes U STABILITY REFORM R
What's Wrong with Democracy at the Moment, and Why it Matters for Research and Education
The article provides historical and political background to contemporary issues facing education and research. In doing so, it argues that there has been a fundamental inversion of democracy. What this means is that instead of democracy providing a political framework for the voices of people, it is employed as a cover for the interests of the wealthy. The article explores this inversion, drawing upon the theoretical insights of the Annaliste sch…
All the lonely people
This paper argues that the ‘new world order’ achieved at the end of the cold war is in crisis, not generated from the threat of ‘war’ between Christian and Islamic worlds but from within western societies, specifically from the growing commercialisation and ‘privatisation’ of social and community life which has uncoupled the systems and activities of society from the collective and individual purposes of people who comprise that society. Drawing …
Docile bodies
The following paper sketches a parallel between the development of professional psychiatry in nineteenth century France and the development of geography as a school subject in England in the late nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries. In each case, the activities were developed, not in response to clients#shlearners needs, but in the interest of professional status and authority. The authors contend that until complex relations bet…
Historical and Cultural Refractions in Recent Education Transitions
Thirty years after the demise of the Soviet bloc, there still persists a rhetoric of differentiation and a discursive polarisation between the Western and the non-Western educational thinking and practices. This rhetoric overshadows a potential similarity, or homogeneity, between the dominant and several marginalised contexts. Regional, local and personal variations are prematurely attributed to fundamental, if often poorly argued, cultural diffe…
Nostalgia in the narratives of vocational teachers as a way of understanding responses to change
This paper focuses on nostalgia in the narratives of vocational teachers. The aim is to understand the role of nostalgia as a mechanism for adapting to or resisting educational change. The paper is based on the secondary analysis of semi-structured interviews with 30 Estonian vocational teachers. In the teachers’ narratives, the nostalgia for the former vocational education system, which provided more autonomy and empowerment for teachers in thei…
Changements de l'éducation et processus historiques
Changements de l’éducation et processus historiques: une perspective internationale La plupart des initiatives récentes concernant la réforme de l’école ont en commun une position “de transformisme optimiste” et un mépris quasi délibéré des cadres de scolarisation mis en place au cours de l’histoire. Le curriculum national britannique, annoncé comme une initiative majeure par le gouvernement Thatcher en 1987, en est un exemple. À l’époque, presqu…
Distinction and Destiny
Computer Literacy as Ideology
Some of the most prominent policies in schools throughout the industrialized world today relate to the rapid introduction of computers. The most common rationale for introducing educational microcomputing is the concept of ‘computer literacy’. It is a concept, however, which is so poorly defined and delineated, and so unclear as to purpose and procedure, that it may best be investigated as a form of ideology. The justificatory arguments for compu…
Nations at risk’ and ‘national curriculum’
This chapter focuses on the phenomenon emergent in several countries of a new 'National Curriculum'. Primarily the chapter draws on the experience of the United Kingdom. In this case study the focus is on the antecedents of the national curriculum and the arguments and groups through which promotion has taken place; the structures, rhetorical, financial and political, which have been established or co-opted to support it; and finally the content,…
Becoming an Academic Subject
The paper begins by briefly summarising the kind of contemporary accounts of school subjects which arise from sociological and philosophical perspectives. It is argued that socio‐historical investigation into the process of ‘becoming an academic subject’ will provide insights through which to review these accounts. The main core of the paper provides a case study of the evolution of Geography. The Subject begins as a low‐status school Subject str…
International Perspectives in Curriculum History
This book presents comparative data from a range of countries which help define the methodologies employed in curriculum history. It also explores some of the major curriculum issues uncovered in historical studies
Docile bodies
The following paper sketches a parallel between the development of professional psychiatry in nineteenth century France and the development of geography as a school subject in England in the late nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries. In each case, the activities were developed, not in response to clients#shlearners needs, but in the interest of professional status and authority. The authors contend that until complex relations bet…
Primary Education in Postwar England
International Perspectives in Curriculum History
Nations at risk’ and ‘national curriculum’
This chapter focuses on the phenomenon emergent in several countries of a new 'National Curriculum'. Primarily the chapter draws on the experience of the United Kingdom. In this case study the focus is on the antecedents of the national curriculum and the arguments and groups through which promotion has taken place; the structures, rhetorical, financial and political, which have been established or co-opted to support it; and finally the content,…
On Curriculum Form
Academic L Middle and Upper Body of Knowledge to Be Transmitted T Classes U STABILITY REFORM R
Structure and Mediation
This article provides a detailed examination of everyday events at a Canadian vocational high school during the period between the two world wars. Based primarily on interviews with former students, the account reveals both that the schooling experience was highly structured, and how these structures were continually reconstructed by the actions of staff and students. Among students, those with the most control over the conditions of their educat…
Subject Status and Curriculum Change
A case study of commercial studies in London, Ontario, Canada, reveals one aspect of the complex interaction of curriculum change and subject status. During the 1920s, commercial educators at the London Technical and Commercial High School responded to a perceived marginalization of their subject's status by introducing two new courses. Since the decline of commercial studies had followed an influx of female students, and children coming from fam…
Bringing English to Order
Qualitative research in Canadian teacher education
Qualitative research is a well‐developed field in Canadian teacher education. Paradoxically, this growth has taken place in a country where national policy making about education is minimal. In the policy vacuum, a range of innovative and generative qualitative modes have emerged which focus on the teacher's knowledge. A broad spectrum of work covering a focus on the teacher's personal knowledge through to more contextualized life history work ha…
Studying the teacher's life and work
Studying Curriculum
The story so far
This paper looks critically at a number of forms of inquiry that are now developing in the field of teacher education. Narrative methods and starving are two associated genres that have emerged forcefully in the past decade as ways of seeking to represent the lived experience of schooling. It is because of the very potential of these methodologies to bring us closer to the experience of schooling that our scrutiny should focus sharply upon both t…
Negotiating fair trade
Subject Cultures and the Introduction of Classroom Computers
What has often been missing in research on classroom computers is an appreciation for the challenge which microcomputers may present to the well‐established cultures and subcultures of schools, and in particular to subject subcultures. This paper reports on recent research which attempted to assess some of the reciprocal effects of classroom computing and the context and culture of schooling. The distinctive characteristics of three subject areas…
Studying School Subjects
Curriculum Contests
Much of the literature promoting environmental education as ‘a just cause’ assumes a rational discussion of curriculum options. In fact, the promotion of new curriculum areas threatens existing subject territories. Historically environmental education has threatened the boundaries of geography. Thus, by studying these ‘border wars’ we learn more about the process of promoting new curriculum areas. This paper seeks to build on previous work which …
Computer Literacy as Ideology
Some of the most prominent policies in schools throughout the industrialized world today relate to the rapid introduction of computers. The most common rationale for introducing educational microcomputing is the concept of ‘computer literacy’. It is a concept, however, which is so poorly defined and delineated, and so unclear as to purpose and procedure, that it may best be investigated as a form of ideology. The justificatory arguments for compu…
Representing teachers
Distinction and Destiny
The Educational Researcher as a Public Intellectual
As education and schooling are themselves repositioned and restratified in the new global work order, so research on education is itself repositioned. In such a situation, even if people go on researching as they researched before, their work may have been repositioned: sometimes so as to substantially shift, or even invert, the relevance and effect of that work. A crisis of positionality arises at this point because of the reconstitution and rep…
The Story of Life History
For some time psychologists have been employing life history methods in their work. Perhaps the key publication in this regard is Erik Erikson 's (1975)book Life History and the Historical Moment. In fact, life history methods were pioneered by anthropologists and taken up with considerable enthusiasm by sociologists. A central location for the pioneering of life history methods by sociologists was the Chicago School in the 1930s.A range of innov…
Changements de l'éducation et processus historiques
Changements de l’éducation et processus historiques: une perspective internationale La plupart des initiatives récentes concernant la réforme de l’école ont en commun une position “de transformisme optimiste” et un mépris quasi délibéré des cadres de scolarisation mis en place au cours de l’histoire. Le curriculum national britannique, annoncé comme une initiative majeure par le gouvernement Thatcher en 1987, en est un exemple. À l’époque, presqu…
Educational Change Over Time? The Sustainability and Nonsustainability of Three Decades of Secondary School Change and Continuity
Purpose: This article presents the conceptual framework, methodological design, and key research findings from a Spencer Foundation-funded project of long-term educational change over time. Research Design: Based on more than 200 interviews, supplementary observations, and extensive archival data, it examines perceptions and experiences of educational change in eight high schools in the United States and Canada among teachers and administrators w…
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