1st Edition

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

272 Pages

by Routledge

276 Pages

by Routledge

Description

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... Read more

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