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

by Ivor F. Goodson

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As schooling has becomemore commodity-based, the place and position of learning and curriculum has been transformed and newperspectives areneeded 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 thecentral and enduring issues in education, contributing over forty books and six hundred articles to the field.

This single volumebrings togethertwenty of his key pieces for the first time. IvorGoodson 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.
  • ISBN13 9781134263172
  • Publish Date 20 September 2005 (first published 15 September 2005)
  • Publish Status Permanently Withdrawn
  • Out of Print 19 July 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Imprint Routledge
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 272
  • Language English