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Teachers' Professional Lives
RoutledgeFalmer 1996; US$ 57.50This text provides a discussion of the meaning of teacher professionalism and how it can be improved. more...
Learning, Curriculum And Life History
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 45.95Having spent the last thirty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key issues in education, Professor Ivor Goodson presents twenty of his most important writings in this single volume. more...
Professional Knowledge, Professional Lives
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 168.00Professional Knowledge, Professional Lives sets out to examine the state of professional knowledge with regard to teaching and teacher education. The current situation of professional knowledge is scrutinised with particular regard to the location of educational study within the faculties of education. The fate of disciplinary patterns of study, which... more...
The Making Of The Curriculum
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 57.95This is a new, updated version of Ivor Goodson's earlier work which explores A Number Of Aspects Of The "Invention" And Promotion Of So-Called "traditional" subjects. It has now been extended and has been updated to include the National Curriculum. more...
School Subjects And Curriculum Change
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 57.95The process of curriculum development is highly practical, as Goodson shows in this enlarged anniversary third edition of his seminal work. The position of subjects and their development within the curriculum is illustrated by looking at how school subjects, in particular, geography and biology, gained academic and intellectual respectability within... more...
Life Politics
Springer 2011; US$ 49.95This book on life politics comprises a collection of interviews and commentaries. The notion of life politics covers a number of different meanings within the book. Most importantly is the way that the genre of interviews helps cover a range of cultural contexts and intellectual milieu. Part of the life politics represented in this book is built around... more...
Developing Narrative Theory
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95We 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... more...
Teachers' Lives And Careers
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 59.95This volume explores the contemporary situation of teachers' careers and teachers' lives in the context of falling roles, educational cuts and government demands for fundamental change in educational processes. more...
Studying School Subjects
Taylor and Francis 1996; US$ 57.95School subjects and how they are viewed and positioned within education is the focus of this text. It argues that, as part of rethinking the whole school curriculum, there has been a failure to look at the historical and social background of school subjects. more...
Education, Globalisation and New Times
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Education, Globalisation and New Times comprises a selection of the most influential papers published over the twenty-one years of the Journal of Education Policy . Written by many of the leading scholars in the field, these seminal papers cover a variety of subjects, sectors and levels of education, focused around the following major themes: ... more...









