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Prof Ivor Goodson

Professor of Learning Theory

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Education
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 644560

Email: I.F.Goodson@brighton.ac.uk

Biography

  • 2004 - present Professor of Learning Theory, Education Research Centre, University of Brighton
  • 2004 - present Research Associate, Von Hugel Institute, St Edmunds College, University of Cambridge
  • 1996 - 2004 Chair of Education, Centre for Applied Research in Education, School of Education and Professional Development, University of East Anglia
  • 1996 - 2002 Frederica Warner Scholar, Scholar in Residence and Professor of Education, Margaret Warner Graduate School, University of Rochester
  • 1993 - 1998 Honorary Professor of Sociology, University of Western Ontario
  • 1986 - 1996 Full Professor, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Centre for Theory and Criticism and Director of Educational Research Unit (from 1989) University of Western Ontario.

Honours and Awards

  • 2009 - Life Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
  • 2007 - 2010- Joss Owen Professor (Chair of Education) – University of Plymouth
  • 2008 - Member of Who's Who in the World 2008
  • 2008 - Member of Who's Who 2008
  • 2007 - Honorary Doctorate in Education, Goteborgs Universitet, Sweeden
  • 2007 - Member of Who’s Who in the World 2007
  • 2007 - Selected to the Laureate Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, Indianapolis, Indiana
  • 2006 - Michael Huberman Award, AERA, San Francisco, USA
  • 2005 - Catalan Research Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain
  • 2003 - STINT FOUNDATION Professor, Department of Education, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. (2003-2008).

Research Interests

  • Learning Theory, Narrative Learning.

Current and recent research projects

  • AHRC Funded ‘Cultural Geographies of Counter-Diasporic Migration: The Second Generation Returns ‘Home’ with the University of Sussex (Professor Russell King - £440,000 (2006-2009)
  • EU European Network of Experts in the Social Sciences of Education and Training (NESSE) set up by the Institut National De Recherche Pedagogique, Lyon (2006)
  • ESRC Teaching & Learning Research Programme, ‘Learning Lives: Learning, Identity and Agency in the Life Course’ - £960.000.00 (with G. Biesta & F. Macleod, University of Exeter; J. Field, University of Stirling; P. Hodkinson, University of Leeds (2003-2008)
  • Professional Knowledge in Education and Health (PROFKNOW); Restructuring Work and Life Between State and Citizens in Europe – University of Brighton – UK, University of Gothenburg - Sweden, National and Kopodistorian University of Athens - Greece, University of Joensuu – Finland, University of Barcelona - Spain, University of the Azores – Portugal, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University – Ireland, University of Stockholm - Sweden (2002-2007)
  • The Spencer Foundation, USA ‘Change Over Time? ‘A Study of Culture, Structure, Time and Change in Secondary Schooling’ $520,000.00 (with A. Hargreaves) (1998-2003).

Consultancy

  • 1997 - present International Advisory Committee, Zentrum für Schulforschung und Fragen de Lehrerbildung, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
  • 1982 - 2000 Executive Director, Falmer Press.

Selected Recent Publications

Books

  • Through the Schoolhouse Door. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2010
  • Narrative Learning, Goodson, I. F., Biesta, G., Tedder, M., & Adair, N. London and New York: Routledge, 2010
  • Developing Professional Knowledge about Teachers, Zhehiang University Press, Hangzhou, 2009
  • As Políticas De Currículo e de Escolarização, Editora Vozes: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2008
  • Investigating the Teacher’s Life and Work, (Sense Publishers: Rotterdam, 2008)
  • Politicas do Conhecimento:  Vida e Trabalho docente entre saberes e instituições, (Organizaçâo e tradução:  Raimundo Martins e Irene Tourinho), Coleção Desenrêdos:  Brazil, 2007
  • Professional Knowledge, Professional Lives, Beijing Normal (University Press: Beijing, 2007)
  • Professionel Viden. Professionelt Liv: Studier af Uddannelse og Forandring, (Frydenlund: Denmark, 2007)
  • Education, Globalisation and New Times, Edited by Stephen J Ball, Ivor F Goodson and Meg Maguire, English Heritage series (Routledge: London & New York, 2007)
  • Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics: The selected works of Ivor F. Goodson (Routledge: Abingdon, 2005)
  • Väd är professionell kunskap? Förändrade värdingar av lärares yrkesroll (Studentlitteratur: Sweden, 2003)
  • Professional Knowledge, Professional Lives: Studies in Education and Change. (Open University Press: Maidenhead & Philadelphia, 2003).

Chapters in Encyclopedia

  • ‘Curriculum History’, in D. Levinson, P. Cookson, A. Sadovnik, Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia,(RoutledgeFalmer, London and New York, 2002), pp. 133-150
  • With M. Foote, ‘Testing Times: A School Case Study’, Schooling and Standards in the U.S.: An Encyclopedia, 2001
  • ‘Social History of School Subjects’, Section in International Encyclopedia of Education, Supplementary Volume 2, (Pergamon Press) Fall 1990, pp. 543-547.

Chapters in Books

  • ‘Listening to professional life stories: some cross-professional perspectives’ in Teachers’ career trajectories and work lives, Eds Helle Plauborg & Simon Rolls, Springer: Dordrecht, Heidelber, London and New York, Vol. 3, pp. 203-210, 2009
  • ‘Personal History and Curriculum Study’, Leaders in Curriculum Studies: Intellectual Self-Portraits, Eds. E. Short & L. Waks, Sense Publishers: Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei, 91-104, 2009
  • ‘L’interrogation des réformes éducatives: la contribution des etudes biographiques en education in Repenser la justice dan la domaine de l’éducation et de la formation, Eds. Jean-Louis Derouet & Marie-Claude Derrout-Bresson, Peter Lang: Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wein, 311-330, 2009
  • ‘Procesos Sociohistóricos De Cambio Curricular’. El Conocimiento Escolar En Una Perspectica Histórica Y Comparativ: Cambios de Currículos en la Educatión Primaria y Secudaria’ in Perspecticas en Educatión. Edited by Aaron Benavot and Cecilia Braslavsky, 2008
  • 'Schooling, curriculum, narrative and the social future in The Future of Educational Change. International Perspectives. Edited by Ciaran Sugrue. Routledge: Abingdon, 2008
  • 'The Pedagogic Moment: Searches for Passion and Purpose in Education' in At Sætte spor en vandring fra Aquinas til Bourdieu - æresbog til Staf Callewaert, Forlaget Hexis: Denmark, 2008
  • ‘Socio-historical Processes of Curriculum Change’, in A. Benavot & C. Braslavsky (eds), School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective: Changing Curricula in Primary and Secondary Education, Comparative Education Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, 2006 [ISBN 987-962-8093-52-6]
  • ‘The Personality of Change’, in W. Veugelers & R. Bosman (eds), De strijd om het curriculum (The struggle around the curriculum) Antwerpen/Apeldoorn: Garant (series sociology of education) 2005
  • ‘Change Processes and Historical Periods: An International Perspective’, in C. Sugrue (ed), Curriculum and Ideology: Irish Experiences International Perspectives, The Liffey Press: Dublin, 2004.

Journal Articles (peer reviewed)

  • Restructuring teachers’ work-lives and knowledge in England and Spain, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Vol. 40, (3) May 2010, pp. 265-277 with Jorg Muller, Caroline Norrie and Fernando Hernandez
  • Developing Life and Work Histories of Teachers, Journal of Applied Research in Education,pp. 1-13, Vol 13, November, 2009.
  • Curriculum as narration: tales from the children of the colonised, with Ruth Deakin Crick, Curriculum Journal, 2009. Taylor and Francis: London and New York.
  • Les Enseignants de Demain : Perspective Anglo-Saxonne sur La Restructuration des Vies Professionnelles et des Connaissances Des Enseignants Du Primaire, by Ivor Goodson et Caroline Norrie in Des Ensiegnants pour Demain, Education et Societes, edited by Patrick Rayou, n° 23/2009/1, pp: 153-168, 2009.
  • Life History and Collective Memory as Methodological Strategies: Studying Teacher Professionalism, with Pik Lin Choi, Teacher Education Quarterly, Vol 35, No 2, Spring, p5-28, 2008.
  • Questionando as reformas educativas: a contribuição dos estudos , biográficos na educação. (Dossiê Temático : Em Multiplicidades nomeia-se currículo, organizado por Antonio Carlos Amorim), Pro Posições, Vol 8, No 2(53), p. 17-38, maio/agosto 2007.
  • Revista Brasileira de Educação, Currículo, narrativa e o futuro social, maio/agosto, Vol 12, No 35, 2007.
  • Goodson, I.F., (2007), All the Lonely People: the struggle for private meaning and public purpose in education, Critical Studies in Education, Vol 48, No 1, March, pp. 131-148
  • Goodson, I.F., (2006), The Reformer Knows Best, Destroying the Teacher's vocation, Forum, Vol 48, No 3, pp. 253-259
  • Goodson, I.F., (2006), The Rise of the Life Narrative, Teacher Education Quarterly, Fall.

Conference Articles (peer reviewed)

  • Keynote, ‘Developing life and work histories of teachers’, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan 11, January 2009.
  • Keynote, ‘Becoming a teacher: comparative studies of teacher reforms in other Western countries’, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Education, Japan, 8 January 2009.
  • Lecture entitled, ‘Developing a theory of narrativity’, October 2009, University of Bergen, Norway.
  • ‘Learning lives and educational turning points,’ Centre for Life History and Life Writing, University of Sussex, 24 February, 2009.
  • Keynote Presentation at a symposium on ‘Professional Knowledge and Professional Lives’, University of Braga, 23-28 October 2008.
  • Presented, 'The Pedagogic Moment: Searches for Passion and Purpose in Education' at the 36th Congress of the Nordic Educational Research Association, March 6 - 8, 2008 in Copenhagen
  • Presented, 'Investigating the Life and Work of Teachers', University of Minho, Portugal, 29 November 2007
  • Presented 'Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics' at the Honorary Doctorship ceremony, Göteborg University, Sweden19-20 October, 2007
  • Presented 'Finding our story: Sequences and Dispositions in Learning Theory' at the ECER Conference in Ghent, Brussels - Contested Qualities of Educational Research, September 2007
  • Keynote speech, The Sociology of Curriculum, Nanjing Normal University, China, 25 May 2007
  • Presented, 'The Life History Studies of Teachers', Nanjing University, China, 23 May 2007
  • Presented, 'The Sociology of Curriculum', Nanjing University, China, 22 May 2007
  • Keynote speech at the 13th International Conference Forum of Taiwan Sociology of Education, 'The Socio-cultural Significance of Place, Community and Educational Praxix' in Pingtung, Taiwan, 18-19 May 2007
  • Presented, National Pingtung University of Education, Taiwan 17 May 2007
  • Presented, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, 16 May 2007
  • Keynote speech, ‘New Narratives in Curriculum and Education’ at the IX Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências da Educação, Madeira Tecnopolo/Universidade da Madeira Campus Universitário da Penteada – Funcha, 26-28 April 2007
  • Key note lecture, ‘Curriculum as Prescription or Narration Conference of the ESREA Network on Life History and Biography, Roskilde University, Denmark, March 1st-4th 2007
  • Lecture – ‘Curriculum and Life History Perspective’ at the University of Campo Grande, Brazil, 4 October 2006.