1st Edition

Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson

By Ivor F Goodson Copyright 2005
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    As schooling has become more commodity-based, the place and position of learning and curriculum has been transformed and new perspectives are needed to understand these rapidly changing times. By studying life histories and life politics we can gain insights into the relationship between peoples' private missions and meanings and their public tasks and targets.

    For the last thirty years, Ivor Goodson has been researching, thinking and writing about some of the central and enduring issues in education, contributing over forty books and six hundred articles to the field.

    This single volume brings together twenty of his key pieces for the first time. Ivor Goodson opens with an autobiographical introduction to a range of curriculum studies which pioneered a new way of studying schooling and he contextualises his selection within the development of the field. Chapters in this prestigious book cover:

    • curriculum history and policy
    • classroom pedagogy and strategies for professional development
    • life history, narrative and educational change.

    1. Introduction: Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics  2. Learning and Curriculum 3. Learning and the Pedagogic Moment: Extract from The Pedagogic Moment 4. Coming to Curriculum: Extract from Reconstructing Aspects of a Teachers Life  5. Towards an Alternative Pedagogy  6. Chariots of Fire  7. Becoming an Academic Subject  8. On Curriculum Form  9. The Making of Curriculum  10. Nations at Risk and National Curriculum  11. Long Waves of Educational Reform  12. Methods  13. Towards a Social Constructionist Perspective  14. History, Context and Qualitative Methods  15. The Story of Life History  16. Life Politics  17. Preparing for Postmodernity: Storying the Self  18. The Story So Far  19. Action Research and the Reflexive Project of Selves  20. Scrutinising Life Stories  21. Representing Teachers: Bringing teachers Back in  22. Sponsoring the Teachers Voice  23. The Personality of Educational Change

    Biography

    Ivor F. Goodson