Ivor Goodson
Educationalist and teacher
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Ivor Frederick Goodson FAcSS (born 1943) is a British educationalist.[1] He is a professor at Tallinn University.
Ivor Goodson | |
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| Born | Ivor Frederick Goodson 1943 (age 82–83) |
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| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | School Subjects and Curriculum Conflict, 1895–1975 (1980) |
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| Discipline | Education |
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| Website | ivorgoodson |
Education and career
Goodson was born in 1943 in Woodley, a village near Reading, Berkshire.[2] He went to a grammar school and was unsuccessful initially, leaving at age 15, but then returned and resumed his studies.[2] He received a Bachelor of Science degree from University College, London, and his teachers certificate from the London School of Education.[3] He then worked as a teacher at the progressive comprehensive school, Countesthorpe Community College.[2]
Goodson returned to the University of Sussex for a Doctor of Philosophy degree, which he completed in 1979.[3] He remained at Sussex for several years, before moving the University of Western Ontario in 1986, and to the University of East Anglia in 1996.[3] In 2004, he became the Professor of Learning Theory at the University of Brighton.[3][4] As of 2015, he is a professor at Tallinn University, Estonia.[3]
He was the co-editor-in-chief and founder of the Journal of Education Policy, alongside Stephen Ball.[5][6]
Books
Goodson's books include:
- School Subjects and Curriculum Change (Croom Helm, 1983; 3rd ed., Falmer Press, 1993)[7]
- The Making Of The Curriculum: Collected Essays (Falmer Press, 1988; 3rd ed., 2004)[8]
- Studying Curriculum (Open University Press, 1994)[9]
- Studying School Subjects: A Guide (with Colin J. Marsh, Falmer Press, 1996)[10]
- The Changing Curriculum: Studies in Social Construction (Peter Lang Publishing, 1997)[11]
- Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics: The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson (Routledge, 2005)[12]
- Developing Narrative Theory: Life Histories and Personal Representation (Routledge, 2013)[13]
- Critical Narrative as Pedagogy (with Scherto Gill, Bloomsbury, 2014)[14]
- Democracy, Education and Research: The Struggle for Public Life (with John Schostak, Routledge 2019).
- Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life: A Transformative Vision of Human Well Being (with Garett Thomson, and Scherto Gill, Routledge, 2020).
He is also an editor or co-editor of several edited volumes.
Awards and honours
- 2020 A festschrift volume in Goodson's honour was published.[15]
- 2019 Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).[16]
- 2018 Awarded John Nisbet Fellowship Award by British Educational Research Association for outstanding contribution to educational research over his career.[17]
- 2007 Awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Gothenburg.[18]