Ivor F Goodson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4136881 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivor F Goodson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivor F |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodson |
| SIGNATURE | GOODSON I F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Curriculum and coronavirus
The coronavirus crisis has appeared like some vast, cruel sociological experiment. It has confined people to their homes, radically disturbed their taken-for-granted knowledge and beliefs, and forced them to alter behaviors once casually, even unthinkingly, employed in their everyday personal, working, and social lives. What has been learned? How might this experience stimulate a reimagining of the curriculum? More fundamentally, how might it lea…
"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…
Defining The Curriculum
This book explores some of the major processes involved in the definition of school subject knowledge. Using historical ethnographic methods, the contributors to the collection highlight and examine some of the factors involved at national, institutional and classroom levels in the making of school subjects. The first section of the book outlines the theoretical and methodological basis for the study off school subjects, and the reasons for and t…
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…
Life Politics
Through the Schoolhouse Door
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 vocational secondary schools. 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. A major theme is the importance of viewing teachers and administrators as mediating…
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…
Education, Globalisation and New Times
Representing teachers
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…
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…
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…
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 Curriculum
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…
On Curriculum Form
Academic L Middle and Upper Body of Knowledge to Be Transmitted T Classes U STABILITY REFORM R
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,…
Primary Education in Postwar England
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…
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
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,…
Primary Education in Postwar England
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…
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 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…
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
Education, Globalisation and New Times
Through the Schoolhouse Door
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 vocational secondary schools. 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. A major theme is the importance of viewing teachers and administrators as mediating…
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…
Life Politics
Defining The Curriculum
This book explores some of the major processes involved in the definition of school subject knowledge. Using historical ethnographic methods, the contributors to the collection highlight and examine some of the factors involved at national, institutional and classroom levels in the making of school subjects. The first section of the book outlines the theoretical and methodological basis for the study off school subjects, and the reasons for and t…
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…
"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…
Curriculum and coronavirus
The coronavirus crisis has appeared like some vast, cruel sociological experiment. It has confined people to their homes, radically disturbed their taken-for-granted knowledge and beliefs, and forced them to alter behaviors once casually, even unthinkingly, employed in their everyday personal, working, and social lives. What has been learned? How might this experience stimulate a reimagining of the curriculum? More fundamentally, how might it lea…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Mathematics education (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Curriculum (6 works) · Politics (6 works)