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Papers by IVOR GOODSON
PROSPECTS
The coronavirus crisis has appeared like some vast, cruel sociological experiment. It has confine... more 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 lead to the development of a knowledgeable, intelligent, effective public, able to engage freely and equally in decision-making at all levels of social, cultural, political, and economic life, as a condition for personal freedom? This article explores the implications of "lockdown" or "confinement" to homes, which has suspended freedom of movement, limited the freedom to associate with others, and established rituals of hygiene regarding surfaces. These experiences of physical confinement and limitation of ordinary freedoms raise the central question of how to return to "normal" and, indeed, what will count as normal. In exploring the issues posed by these questions, this article offers an approach to pedagogical and curriculum practice that seeks to embed democratic practice at all levels of organization and interaction between individuals.
European Journal of Teacher Education, 1982
ABSTRACT The development of educational cooperation at the level of the European Community is exa... more ABSTRACT The development of educational cooperation at the level of the European Community is examined from a background of personal involvement. Two perspectives are taken, namely that of the Curriculum Models Project and that of an activity‐based network. In conclusion, the need to define processes of international research and development is discussed.
Collaborative exchanges between teachers and educational researchers were studied through a proje... more Collaborative exchanges between teachers and educational researchers were studied through a project that focused on the induction of new community college teachers in Ontario (Canada). Each instructor was interviewed and much time was spent collaboratively developing full life history profiles. The focus of this exploration is on the on-site coordinator, who provided an initial teacher orientation week and workshop sessions every 2 weeks. Transcripts show that the teachers spent increasing amounts of time talking about micropolitical strategy and less time talking about classroom performance and the technical skills of teaching. Exploration of the developing views of the coordinator and his own thoughts on the micropolitics of the institution gives a view of the educator/researcher as he responds to the demands of the project. Developing collaboration and a sense of location, exchanging the gifts of information and practice, and sponsoring the "third voice" (a collusion between teller and listener) occupied the coordinator to an increasing degree as the project unfolded. Assuring that the teachers receive the gifts of research requires attention to communication at all times. (Contains 10 references.) (SLD)
This paper defines a number of different segments in educational change processes: the internal, ... more This paper defines a number of different segments in educational change processes: the internal, the external, and the personal. As a form of introduction, the paper reviews the patterns of educational coalition in the second half of the 20th century. For conceptualizing
Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1990
Historias De Vida Del Profesorado 2004 Isbn 84 8063 631 9 Pags 27 42, 2004
El libro Historias de vida del profesorado intenta llenar un vacío considerable que existe desde ... more El libro Historias de vida del profesorado intenta llenar un vacío considerable que existe desde hace tiempo en los libros sobre educación. Aunque durante el último siglo haya experimentado auges esporádicos, la historia de vida es un género que ha recibido escasa atención ...
Abstract The work of teachers has changed significantly in recent years and now, more than ever, ... more Abstract The work of teachers has changed significantly in recent years and now, more than ever, there is a pressing need for high quality professional development. This timely new series examines the actual and possible forms of professional learning, professional ...
This paper explains the conception and operation of a combined use of the life history and collec... more This paper explains the conception and operation of a combined use of the life history and collective memory methods to study beginning teachers' professionalism. The life history approach has an important role to play in illuminating human subjectivity. Collective memory method, which is innovative, used alongside the life history approach in the study, is employed to honor both subjectivity and inter-subjectivity in social inquiry. This paper also illustrates how the techniques of categorization, constant comparison and translation, as well as synthesis, were creatively used in the combined methods to acquire knowledge and understanding of the relationships between the persons and the systems both at an individual and a collective level. The epistemological and methodological potentials of the two methods are discussed.
... En este contexto, Goodson identifica los nexos entre la historia, la educación y la política ... more ... En este contexto, Goodson identifica los nexos entre la historia, la educación y la política . En El cambio en el currículum se revisa la emergencia social e histórica del currículum como concepto y de la teoría del currículum como práctica. ...
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in …, 1995
This paper explores some forms of inquiry that are becoming influential within teacher education.... more This paper explores some forms of inquiry that are becoming influential within teacher education. In particular, the document focuses on forms of inquiry variously called "stories," "narratives," "personal knowledge," "practical knowledge," or in one particular genre "personal practical knowledge." Storying and narratology are genres which allow movement beyond (or to the side) of the main paradigms of educational inquiry-with their numbers, variables, psychometrics, psychologies, and decontextualized theories. Potentially then, the new genres offer the chance for a substantial step forward in the representation of lived experience in schooling. Because of this substantial potential, the new genres require very close scrutiny, for while they have some obvious strengths, there are some weaknesses which may prove incapacitating. This investigation seeks to locate the genres of narrative and storying within the emergent cultural patterns of contemporary societies and economies. The media context of personal knowledge is examined and a series of questions and issues are raised as a result. In the final section, some conclusions as to the role of personal knowledge in educational research are provided. (Contains 22 references.) (LL)
Pro Posicoes, 2007
Resumo: No artigo, apresentam-se e discutem-se características dos processos de reforma educativa... more Resumo: No artigo, apresentam-se e discutem-se características dos processos de reforma educativa no ocidente, tomando os Estados Unidos como caso exemplar e difusor de ideários e focalizando as reconfigurações recentes da profissionalização do professor. Um dos princípios importantes da reforma é a padronização obtida pela relação entre currículo e avaliação de desempenho, constituindo-se um modelo empresarial de gestão da educação. As análises do artigo permitem que se compreenda que o fenômeno da qualidade em educação se constrói sobre bases que destituem a importância, a ênfase e a prioridade nas histórias de vida dos professores, o vocacionalismo e as suas relações de compromisso com a escola. Palavras-chaves: reforma educativa, delivery system 2 , histórias de vida.
Pro-Posições
This paper deals with the journey of school knowledge through different sites from its origin in ... more This paper deals with the journey of school knowledge through different sites from its origin in the curriculum, to professional teachers' life histories. At each site, a set of empirical materials is examined relating to the subject of research. In this sense, curriculum documents, textbooks and high school teachers' narratives were analysed, observing the refractive processes gone through during the journey. The research encompasses the curriculum policies for the Brazilian high school in the last two decades. As a result, it highlights the unexpected ways of appropriation that emerge out of control along the way. Dealing with the reinterpretations of curriculum policies, it is necessary to consider the sensibilities and intentions involved in every state. It is possible to perceive, through a narrative capital, that public policies need to contemplate the life missions of the social actors involved in the education process.
Leaders in Curriculum Studies
Investigating the Teacher's Life and Work
ETD - Educação Temática Digital
Neste artigo, o campo de estudos de currículo delineia-se por uma escrita biográfica e reflexiva ... more 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.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 0958517920030305, Jul 28, 2006
The structure of schooling is always political and, because it is political, it is always contrad... more The structure of schooling is always political and, because it is political, it is always contradictory. Complete social consensus on the purposes and justifications for public schooling has never been achieved, and probably never will be. Despite such ongoing ...
Journal of Education Policy, Nov 1, 2010
ABSTRACT One area where the financial crisis has shown the limitation of neo‐liberal thinking is ... more ABSTRACT 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 countries undertaken for the European Commission. The countries covered are: England and Wales, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Sweden and Greece and the research was conducted from 2004 to 2008.
PROSPECTS
The coronavirus crisis has appeared like some vast, cruel sociological experiment. It has confine... more 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 lead to the development of a knowledgeable, intelligent, effective public, able to engage freely and equally in decision-making at all levels of social, cultural, political, and economic life, as a condition for personal freedom? This article explores the implications of "lockdown" or "confinement" to homes, which has suspended freedom of movement, limited the freedom to associate with others, and established rituals of hygiene regarding surfaces. These experiences of physical confinement and limitation of ordinary freedoms raise the central question of how to return to "normal" and, indeed, what will count as normal. In exploring the issues posed by these questions, this article offers an approach to pedagogical and curriculum practice that seeks to embed democratic practice at all levels of organization and interaction between individuals.
European Journal of Teacher Education, 1982
ABSTRACT The development of educational cooperation at the level of the European Community is exa... more ABSTRACT The development of educational cooperation at the level of the European Community is examined from a background of personal involvement. Two perspectives are taken, namely that of the Curriculum Models Project and that of an activity‐based network. In conclusion, the need to define processes of international research and development is discussed.
Collaborative exchanges between teachers and educational researchers were studied through a proje... more Collaborative exchanges between teachers and educational researchers were studied through a project that focused on the induction of new community college teachers in Ontario (Canada). Each instructor was interviewed and much time was spent collaboratively developing full life history profiles. The focus of this exploration is on the on-site coordinator, who provided an initial teacher orientation week and workshop sessions every 2 weeks. Transcripts show that the teachers spent increasing amounts of time talking about micropolitical strategy and less time talking about classroom performance and the technical skills of teaching. Exploration of the developing views of the coordinator and his own thoughts on the micropolitics of the institution gives a view of the educator/researcher as he responds to the demands of the project. Developing collaboration and a sense of location, exchanging the gifts of information and practice, and sponsoring the "third voice" (a collusion between teller and listener) occupied the coordinator to an increasing degree as the project unfolded. Assuring that the teachers receive the gifts of research requires attention to communication at all times. (Contains 10 references.) (SLD)
This paper defines a number of different segments in educational change processes: the internal, ... more This paper defines a number of different segments in educational change processes: the internal, the external, and the personal. As a form of introduction, the paper reviews the patterns of educational coalition in the second half of the 20th century. For conceptualizing
Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1990
Historias De Vida Del Profesorado 2004 Isbn 84 8063 631 9 Pags 27 42, 2004
El libro Historias de vida del profesorado intenta llenar un vacío considerable que existe desde ... more El libro Historias de vida del profesorado intenta llenar un vacío considerable que existe desde hace tiempo en los libros sobre educación. Aunque durante el último siglo haya experimentado auges esporádicos, la historia de vida es un género que ha recibido escasa atención ...
Abstract The work of teachers has changed significantly in recent years and now, more than ever, ... more Abstract The work of teachers has changed significantly in recent years and now, more than ever, there is a pressing need for high quality professional development. This timely new series examines the actual and possible forms of professional learning, professional ...
This paper explains the conception and operation of a combined use of the life history and collec... more This paper explains the conception and operation of a combined use of the life history and collective memory methods to study beginning teachers' professionalism. The life history approach has an important role to play in illuminating human subjectivity. Collective memory method, which is innovative, used alongside the life history approach in the study, is employed to honor both subjectivity and inter-subjectivity in social inquiry. This paper also illustrates how the techniques of categorization, constant comparison and translation, as well as synthesis, were creatively used in the combined methods to acquire knowledge and understanding of the relationships between the persons and the systems both at an individual and a collective level. The epistemological and methodological potentials of the two methods are discussed.
... En este contexto, Goodson identifica los nexos entre la historia, la educación y la política ... more ... En este contexto, Goodson identifica los nexos entre la historia, la educación y la política . En El cambio en el currículum se revisa la emergencia social e histórica del currículum como concepto y de la teoría del currículum como práctica. ...
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in …, 1995
This paper explores some forms of inquiry that are becoming influential within teacher education.... more This paper explores some forms of inquiry that are becoming influential within teacher education. In particular, the document focuses on forms of inquiry variously called "stories," "narratives," "personal knowledge," "practical knowledge," or in one particular genre "personal practical knowledge." Storying and narratology are genres which allow movement beyond (or to the side) of the main paradigms of educational inquiry-with their numbers, variables, psychometrics, psychologies, and decontextualized theories. Potentially then, the new genres offer the chance for a substantial step forward in the representation of lived experience in schooling. Because of this substantial potential, the new genres require very close scrutiny, for while they have some obvious strengths, there are some weaknesses which may prove incapacitating. This investigation seeks to locate the genres of narrative and storying within the emergent cultural patterns of contemporary societies and economies. The media context of personal knowledge is examined and a series of questions and issues are raised as a result. In the final section, some conclusions as to the role of personal knowledge in educational research are provided. (Contains 22 references.) (LL)
Pro Posicoes, 2007
Resumo: No artigo, apresentam-se e discutem-se características dos processos de reforma educativa... more Resumo: No artigo, apresentam-se e discutem-se características dos processos de reforma educativa no ocidente, tomando os Estados Unidos como caso exemplar e difusor de ideários e focalizando as reconfigurações recentes da profissionalização do professor. Um dos princípios importantes da reforma é a padronização obtida pela relação entre currículo e avaliação de desempenho, constituindo-se um modelo empresarial de gestão da educação. As análises do artigo permitem que se compreenda que o fenômeno da qualidade em educação se constrói sobre bases que destituem a importância, a ênfase e a prioridade nas histórias de vida dos professores, o vocacionalismo e as suas relações de compromisso com a escola. Palavras-chaves: reforma educativa, delivery system 2 , histórias de vida.
Pro-Posições
This paper deals with the journey of school knowledge through different sites from its origin in ... more This paper deals with the journey of school knowledge through different sites from its origin in the curriculum, to professional teachers' life histories. At each site, a set of empirical materials is examined relating to the subject of research. In this sense, curriculum documents, textbooks and high school teachers' narratives were analysed, observing the refractive processes gone through during the journey. The research encompasses the curriculum policies for the Brazilian high school in the last two decades. As a result, it highlights the unexpected ways of appropriation that emerge out of control along the way. Dealing with the reinterpretations of curriculum policies, it is necessary to consider the sensibilities and intentions involved in every state. It is possible to perceive, through a narrative capital, that public policies need to contemplate the life missions of the social actors involved in the education process.
Leaders in Curriculum Studies
Investigating the Teacher's Life and Work
ETD - Educação Temática Digital
Neste artigo, o campo de estudos de currículo delineia-se por uma escrita biográfica e reflexiva ... more 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.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 0958517920030305, Jul 28, 2006
The structure of schooling is always political and, because it is political, it is always contrad... more The structure of schooling is always political and, because it is political, it is always contradictory. Complete social consensus on the purposes and justifications for public schooling has never been achieved, and probably never will be. Despite such ongoing ...
Journal of Education Policy, Nov 1, 2010
ABSTRACT One area where the financial crisis has shown the limitation of neo‐liberal thinking is ... more ABSTRACT 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 countries undertaken for the European Commission. The countries covered are: England and Wales, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Sweden and Greece and the research was conducted from 2004 to 2008.
Adult learning matters. There is now widespread agreement that modern countries depend on the cre... more 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.