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  • HAPPINESS, FLOURISHING AND THE GOOD LIFE
    GARRETT THOMSON / SCHERTO GILL / IVOR GOODSON
    Well-being studies is an exciting and relatively new multi-disciplinary field, with data being gathered from different domains in order to improve social policies. In its reliance on a truncated account of well-being based implicitly on neoclassical economic assumptions, however, the field is deeply flawed. Departing from reductive accounts of well-being that exclude the normat...

    $1,099.00

  • DEMOCRACY, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
    JOHN SCHOSTAK / IVOR F. GOODSON
    Considering how practices and processes of research and education can create fundamental, radical social change, Democracy, Education and Research assesses the meaning of ‘public impact‘ by rethinking what is meant by ‘public‘ and how it is essential to the methodologies of education and research. Focusing on empirical illustrations of the use of research and educational proces...

    $779.00

  • EUROPEAN DIMENSIONS AND THE SECONDARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM
    IVOR GOODSON / VERONICA MCGIVNEY
    Originally published in 1985. ‘Europe‘ and the EEC seemed to be virtually synonymous for the majority of our population and the ambivalent feelings many people have about the Community, together with the consistently bad press it received in the UK, seemed to engender a hostility in educational circles towards teaching about Europe as a whole. However, if one of the aims of edu...

    $579.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK ON NARRATIVE AND LIFE HISTORY
    IVOR GOODSON
    In recent decades, there has been a substantial turn towards narrative and life history study. The embrace of narrative and life history work has accompanied the move to postmodernism and post-structuralism across a wide range of disciplines: sociological studies, gender studies, cultural studies, social history; literary theory; and, most recently, psychology. Written by leadi...

    $1,139.00

  • SCHOOL SUBJECTS AND CURRICULUM CHANGE
    IVOR F. GOODSON
    The 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 the whole curriculum during ...

    $1,139.00

  • DEVELOPING NARRATIVE THEORY
    IVOR F. GOODSON
    We 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 to both approach such research...

    $999.00

  • DEFINING THE CURRICULUM
    GOODSON, IVOR F. / BALL, STEPHEN J
    This book explores some of the major processes involved in the definition of school subject knowledge. Using historical ethnographic methods, the contributors to the collection highlight and examine some of the factors involved at national, institutional and classroom levels in the making of school subjects. The first section of the book outlines the theoretical and methodologi...

    $1,299.00

  • IMPROVING LEARNING THROUGH THE LIFECOURSE
    GERT BIESTA / JOHN FIELD / PHIL HODKINSON / FLORA J. MACLEOD / IVOR F. GOODSON
    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 hel...

    $1,139.00

  • NARRATIVE LEARNING
    IVOR F. GOODSON / GERT BIESTA / MICHAEL TEDDER / NORMA ADAIR
    What is the role of narrative in how people learn throughout their lives? Are there different patterns and forms of narrativity? How do they influence learning? Based on data gathered for the Learning Lives project, which sought to understand learning by questioning individuals about their life stories, this book seeks to define a new learning theory which focuses on the role o...

    $1,139.00

  • STUDYING SCHOOL SUBJECTS
    IVOR F. GOODSON / COLIN J. MARSH
    School 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. ...

    $1,259.00

  • SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE
    CHRISTOPHER J. ANSTEAD / IVOR F GOODSON / J. MARSHALL MANGAN
    School knowledge has been a subject for historians, notably in the field of history of education. concentrating on the educational aspects of particular historical periods, however, links with contemporary education have often remained undeveloped.; This text attempts to account for the growth of increased interest by sociologists and others in school subjects since the 1960s....

    $1,259.00

  • TEACHERS' PROFESSIONAL LIVES
    IVOR F. GOODSON
    This text provides a discussion of the meaning of teacher professionalism and how it can be improved. ...

    $1,799.00

  • CURRICULUM, PERSONAL NARRATIVE AND THE SOCIAL FUTURE
    IVOR F. GOODSON
    Recent writing on education and social change, and a growing number of new governmental initiatives across Western societies have proceeded in denial or ignorance of the personal missions and biographical trajectories of key public sector personnel. This book stems from an underpinning belief that we have to understand the personal biographical if we are to understand the fate ...

    $859.00

  • THE MAKING OF THE CURRICULUM
    IVOR F GOODSON
    The first edition of The Making of Curriculum was published in 1988 and reviewers hailed it as a seminal work in the field. In that work Goodson explored a number of aspects of the so-called traditional subjects and described the way they develop over time to a point where they can be promoted as 'academic' disciplines. He showed that the claim to be academic was in fact the re...

    $1,419.00