Ivor Goodson

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Ivor Goodson

Ivor Goodson is affiliated with the following schools: University of Cambridge, Tallinn University, University of Western Ontario, University of Brighton, University of East London

Ivor Goodson's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Ivor Goodson

Education

#347

World Rank

#528

Historical Rank

education Degrees

Download Badge

Education

Why Is Ivor Goodson Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Ivor Frederick Goodson is a British educationalist. He is a professor at Tallinn University. Education and career Goodson was born in 1943 in Woodley, a village near Reading, Berkshire. He went to a grammar school and was unsuccessful initially, leaving at age 15, but then returned and resumed his studies. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from University College, London, and his teachers certificate from the London School of Education. He then worked as a teacher at the progressive comprehensive school, Countesthorpe Community College.

(See a Problem?)

Ivor Goodson's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

Life History Research in Educational Settings: Learning from Lives (2001) (834)
Studying teachers' lives (1992) (680)
Educational Change Over Time? The Sustainability and Nonsustainability of Three Decades of Secondary School Change and Continuity (2006) (541)
Teachers' Professional Lives (1996) (481)
International handbook of teachers and teaching (1997) (405)
Teachers' Lives And Careers (1985) (402)
Teachers’ Professional Lives: Aspirations and Actualities (2002) (386)
School subjects and curriculum change (1983) (326)
Professional knowledge, professional lives: studies in education and change (2003) (244)
Sponsoring the Teacher's Voice: teachers' lives and teacher development (1991) (229)
The Making Of The Curriculum: Collected Essays (1988) (201)
Exploring the Teacher's Professional Knowledge: Constructing Identity and Community. (1994) (184)
Social Histories of Educational Change (2001) (172)
'The Story So Far': Personal Knowledge and the Political. (1995) (162)
Subject Cultures and the Introduction of Classroom Computers. (1995) (157)
School subjects and curriculum change : studies in curriculum history (1993) (150)
Life histories and the study of schooling (1980) (141)
Teacher Nostalgia and the Sustainability of Reform: The Generation and Degeneration of Teachers’ Missions, Memory, and Meaning (2006) (130)
Biography, identity, and schooling : episodes in educational research (1991) (127)
The Life Cycle of the Teacher (2002) (124)
Studying the teacher's life and work (1994) (122)
The Story of Life History: Origins of the Life History Method in Sociology (2001) (101)
Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics: The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson (2005) (96)
The Life and Work of Teachers (1997) (95)
Understanding Teachers: Concepts and Contexts (2002) (91)
Studying Curriculum: Cases and Methods (1994) (89)
Investigating the Teacher's Life and Work (2008) (86)
Studying school subjects (1996) (86)
Critical Incidents in the Classroom: Identities, Choices and Careers (2002) (85)
Professional Knowledge, Professional Lives (2003) (83)
Transformative Learning for a Sustainable Future: An Exploration of Pedagogies for Change at an Alternative College (2013) (83)
Improving learning through the lifecourse : learning lives (2011) (79)
Studying curriculum: towards a social constructionist perspective (1990) (79)
The Educational Researcher as a Public Intellectual (1999) (76)
Narrative Pedagogy: Life History and Learning (2010) (75)
Teacher's Life Worlds, Agency and Policy Contexts (2002) (72)
The Rise of the Life Narrative (2006) (71)
The changing curriculum : studies in social construction (1999) (65)
Social histories of the secondary curriculum : subjects for study (1985) (60)
On Curriculum Form: Notes toward a Theory of Curriculum. (1992) (60)
Studying School Subjects: A Guide (1996) (60)
Making a Difference about Difference: The Lives and Careers of Racial Minority Immigrant Teachers (1997) (57)
Storying the Self: Life Politics and the Study of the Teacher's Life and Work. (1995) (57)
Developing Narrative Theory: Life Histories and Personal Representation (2012) (55)
Subject Knowledge: Readings For The Study Of School Subjects (1997) (54)
Professional Knowledge and Educational Restructuring in Europe (2011) (53)
Times of educational change: towards an understanding of patterns of historical and cultural refraction (2010) (51)
Professional Knowledge and the Teacher’s Life and Work (2005) (51)
Becoming an Academic Subject: patterns of explanation and evolution (1981) (50)
Reference Groups in Primary Teaching: Talking, Listening and Identity (2002) (49)
Computer Literacy as Ideology (1996) (47)
Life History and Collective Memory as Methodological Strategies: Studying Teacher Professionalism (2008) (46)
Cyber Spaces/Social Spaces: Culture Clash in Computerized Classrooms (2002) (45)
Education globalisation and new times (2007) (43)
‘Trendy Theory’ and Teacher Professionalism (1997) (38)
The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History (2016) (38)
Critical Narrative as Pedagogy (2014) (37)
Curriculum, Personal Narrative and the Social Future (2014) (35)
The principled professional (2000) (34)
International Perspectives in Curriculum History (1988) (33)
All the lonely people: the struggle for private meaning and public purpose in education (2007) (32)
‘Nations at risk’ and ‘national curriculum’: ideology and identity (1990) (32)
>Education as a Practical Matter: some issues and concerns (1995) (30)
Docile bodies: commonalities in the history of psychiatry and schooling (1989) (29)
Curriculum as narration: tales from the children of the colonised (2009) (28)
Pupils, Teachers’ Careers and Schooling: An Empirical Study (2002) (27)
Defining the curriculum : histories and ethnographies (2012) (27)
Social geographies of educational change (2005) (26)
Learning from life: The role of narrative. (2008) (25)
Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life (2020) (24)
Curriculum Reform and Curriculum Theory: a case of historical amnesia (1989) (23)
Subjects for Study: Aspects of a Social History of Curriculum. (1983) (21)
Developing a concept of ‘refraction’: exploring educational change and oppositional practice (2012) (21)
Refraction as a tool for understanding action and educational orthodoxy and transgression (2016) (20)
The changing curriculum (1997) (20)
STUDYING TEACHERS’ LIVES: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES (2013) (20)
Restructuring teachers’ work‐lives and knowledge in England and Spain (2010) (19)
Combining Life-History and Life-Course Approaches in Researching Lifelong Learning: Methodological Observations from the ‘Learning Lives’ Project. (2005) (19)
Re-Interpreting Curriculum Research: Images and Arguments (1989) (18)
Paints, Pots or Promotion? Art Teachers’ Attitudes Towards their Careers (2002) (18)
Context, curriculum and professional knowledge (2014) (17)
TOWARDS AN ALTERNATIVE PEDAGOGY (2005) (16)
Investigating the life and work of teachers (2014) (16)
Researching The Teaching Profession Under Restructuring (2011) (15)
Computers in schools as symbolic and ideological action: the genealogy of the ICON (1992) (15)
The Devil's Bargain: Educational Research and the Teacher (1993) (15)
Explorations in Narrative Research (2012) (14)
Dutch adolescents’ narratives of their citizenship efficacy “Hypothetically, I could have an Impact” (2014) (14)
Teacher Status Panic: Moving Up the Down Escalator (2002) (13)
The use of life histories in the study of teaching (2008) (13)
‘The Tender Trap?’ Commitment and Consciousness in Entrants to Teaching (2002) (12)
Forms of Knowledge and Teacher Education (1993) (12)
Negotiating fair trade: Towards collaborative relationships between researchers and teachers in college settings (1995) (12)
Schooling, curriculum, narrative and the social future (2008) (12)
Socio-historical Processes of Curriculum Change (2007) (12)
Understanding Curriculum Change: Some Warnings about Restructuring Initiatives (2004) (12)
Testing Times: A School Case Study. (2001) (11)
The Changing World of Teachers (1997) (11)
Techniques for doing Life History (2016) (11)
Restructuring, Reform and Refraction: Complexities of Response to Imposed Social Change. (2016) (10)
Patterns of Curriculum Change (2005) (10)
The Teachers' Curriculum and the New Reformation (1975) (9)
Education, capitalism and the global crisis (2014) (9)
Tales of Satisfaction and Disillusionment: Second-Generation “Return” Migration to Greece and Cyprus (2014) (9)
Preparing for Postmodernity: Storying the Self (1998) (9)
What have you got when you’ve got a life story? (2016) (9)
“We’ve Come Full Circle” (2011) (9)
What's Wrong with Democracy at the Moment, and Why it Matters for Research and Education (2012) (9)
Exploring alternative perspectives in educational research (1996) (9)
Curriculum and coronavirus: New approaches to curriculum in the age of uncertainty (2021) (8)
Curriculum Contests: environmental studies versus geography (1996) (8)
The five Rs of educational research (2015) (8)
The story of life history (2016) (8)
Conclusions: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Professional Knowledge (2011) (7)
Negotiating neoliberalism: Developing alternative educational visions (2017) (7)
Cyber Spaces/Social Spaces (2002) (7)
Structure and Mediation: Glimpses of Everyday Life at the London Technical and Commercial High School, 1920-1940 (1993) (7)
Dutch adolescents’ narratives about democracy: ‘I know what democracy means, but not what it means to me’ (2014) (7)
The Social History of School Subjects (1990) (7)
Developing a Collaborative Research Strategy with Teachers for the Study of Classroom Computing (1995) (7)
The concept of refraction and the narrative approach to exploring multi-level social reform initiatives (2017) (6)
The Study of Teaching: Modern and Emerging Conceptions (1997) (6)
Mediation is the Message (2011) (6)
Nostalgia in the narratives of vocational teachers as a way of understanding responses to change (2018) (6)
Developing Chains of Change. (2000) (5)
The Story so Far (2016) (5)
Heroic principals and structures of opportunity: Conjoncture at a vocational high school (1998) (5)
Developing Life and Work Histories of Teachers (2011) (5)
Curriculum, narrative and the social future (2007) (4)
Introduction Life Histories and Narratives (2016) (4)
Negotiating Neoliberal Education (2017) (4)
Behind the Schoolhouse Door: The Historical Study of the Curriculum (1995) (4)
Studying historical periodisation: Towards a concept of refraction (2014) (4)
Change processes and historical periods (2004) (4)
Distinction and Destiny: the importance of curriculum form in elite American private schools (1997) (4)
The Limits of Neoliberal Education (2017) (4)
Changing policy contexts and teachers´ work-life narratives: the case of Estonian vocational teachers (2019) (4)
The journey of school knowledge in High School and the concept of refraction (2018) (4)
Goodson, Ivor F., ed., Social Histories of the Secondary Curriculum: Subjects for Study . London: Falmer, 1985. (1985) (3)
An Alternative Culture for Teaching (1996) (3)
Curriculum and Context. Summative Report, Vol. 1 from the Project: Curriculum and Context in the Use of Computers for Classroom Learning. (1991) (3)
Personal history and curriculum study (2009) (3)
Democracy, Education and Research (2019) (3)
NATIONS AT RISK AND NATIONAL CURRICULUM (2005) (3)
Humour in the Classroom (2017) (3)
SUBJECT STATUS AND CURRICULUM CHANGE: COMMERCIAL EDUCATION IN LONDON, ONTARIO, 1920‐1940 (1993) (3)
Reflections on Teachers’ Life Stories and Teachers’ Life Histories: Towards Teachers’ Narrative Learning (2013) (3)
Goodson, Ivor, School Subjects and Curriculum Change: Case Studies in Curriculum History. London: Croom Helm, 1983. Philadeplia: Falmer, 1987. (1983) (3)
Transnational Perspectives on Curriculum History (2019) (3)
Negotiating Neoliberal Education: A Positional Issue and an Oppositional Stance (2017) (3)
European Cooperation in Education: historical background and contemporary experience (1982) (2)
What’s wrong with democracy at the moment and why it matters for research and education (2019) (2)
The place of theory and practice in preschool teachers’ pre-service education (2018) (2)
Narratives of education and curriculum transition in the former socialist European countries (2019) (2)
Subjects for Study. A Research Agenda. (1990) (2)
The reformer knows best: destroying the teacher's vocation (2006) (2)
Restructuring nurses' worklives and knowledge: case studies from England and Spain. (2009) (2)
Improving the Transparency of the Life History Method Data Analysis Process in Qualitative Biographical Research (2019) (2)
Concord Sixth Form College: The Possibility of School Without Conflict (2002) (2)
Exploring History and Memory Through Autobiographical Memory (2015) (2)
Environmental Education for All: Strategies for Change. (1983) (2)
Closing the Circle: Conclusions and Recommendations. Summative Report, Vol. 3 from the Project: Curriculum and Context in the Use of Computers for Classroom Learning. (1991) (2)
Through the Schoolhouse Door (2010) (2)
Goodson, Ivor, "On Understanding Curriculum: The Alienation of Curriculum Theory," Curriculum Perspectives, 7(October, 1987), 41-47.* (1987) (2)
Listening to Professional Life Stories: Some Cross-Professional Perspectives (2009) (2)
Dutch Students’ Democratic Narratives: ‘I know what democracy means, not what I think of it’ (2014) (2)
Science Curriculum Change in Victorian England: A Case Study of the Science of Common Things (2018) (1)
Curriculum as narrative: crossing borders for a decolonized education (2020) (1)
Qualitative research in Canadian teacher education: developments in the eye of a vacuum (1994) (1)
Developing Curriculum History: A British Perspective (2013) (1)
Culture Clash in Computerized Classrooms (2002) (1)
Bridging the gap between young people's civic selves and theoretical positions on democratic citizenship education (2012) (1)
The Limits of Neoliberal Education: Refraction, Reinterpretation and Reimagination (2017) (1)
Educational Voices: Life Stories and Life Histories (2009) (1)
On explaining curriculum change: H. B. Beal, organizational categories and the rhetoric of justification (1993) (1)
Educational Innovators: A Decade and a Half Later (2002) (1)
Defining and Defending the Subject: Geography versus Environmental Studies (2012) (1)
Planning and Conducting a Large-Scale Mixed Methods Research Study: Research Team Experiences and Recommendations (2018) (1)
Studying Historical Periodisation (2014) (1)
HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL REFRACTIONS IN RECENT EDUCATION TRANSITIONS: THE EXAMPLE OF FORMER SOCIALIST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES (2022) (1)
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: EDUCATIONAL STUDIES AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL (2022) (0)
Radical educational strategies (2019) (0)
What is happening today in terms of social learning becoming social movements? (2019) (0)
New prospects/new perspectives: A reply to Wilson and Holmes (1996) (0)
How do you get from social movements to public space? (2019) (0)
Towards a definition of well-being (2020) (0)
What is wrong with contemporary practices of social/collective learning? (2019) (0)
New rules for research, social learning and creating a socially just world (2019) (0)
Chapter 4: The Life and Work of Teachers (1997) (0)
Rethinking vocationalis : whoose work/life is it? (1993) (0)
The challenge for researchers and educators (2019) (0)
Interview with Jerry Brunetti (2011) (0)
Paradoxes and Culture Clashes (2002) (0)
European Studies (2018) (0)
Analysing educational change (2019) (0)
Facing the Digital Challenge Far from Town (2002) (0)
Europe across the Curriculum (2018) (0)
Machines and Mindsets (2002) (0)
Conclusion: No end (2019) (0)
Engaging with power through radical research methodologies (2019) (0)
The National Survey (2018) (0)
Exchanging Gifts: Collaboration and Location. (1997) (0)
Editorial Board (2010) (0)
John Willinsky. The Triumph of Literature/The Fate of Literacy: English in the Secondary School Curriculum. New York: Teachers Coillege Press, 1991. Pp. 240. (1993) (0)
F.W Merchant and Technical Classes in London: With Ian R Dowbiggin (2010) (0)
A guide to life history interviews (2008) (0)
Editorial (2010) (0)
Democracy, education and research: the conditions of social change (2012) (0)
Modern Studies (2018) (0)
Subjects for Study: Aspects of a Social History of Curriculum (2019) (0)
Representing Teachers: Bringing Teachers Back In1 (2020) (0)
Curriculum and coronavirus: New approaches to curriculum in the age of uncertainty (2021) (0)
Preliminaries for a framework (2020) (0)
Making it happen (2019) (0)
DISCOURSE THANKS REVIEWERS, 2009–2011 (2011) (0)
Rural Working-Class Males in Sweden and Reading: Processes for Re-appropriating Written Culture (2022) (0)
End of part one: Reflections on the research and educational implications of chapters 1–6 (2019) (0)
End of Part Two: Discussion on the implications for research education (2019) (0)
Towards social critique (2020) (0)
Using life story data: Storylines, Scripts and Social Context (2008) (0)
Activities and desires (2020) (0)
The Exclusive Pursuit of Social Inclusion. (2005) (0)
Introduction: The Case History of a Case Study (2010) (0)
Developing Curriculum History (2013) (0)
From mystification to markets (2019) (0)
Changes in Education and the Historical Process: An International Perspective (2003) (0)
Milburn, Geoffrey, Ivor F. Goodson, and Robert J. Clark, eds., Re-Interpreting Curriculum Research: Images and Arguments. Philadelphia: Falmer, 1989. (1989) (0)
Academia undermining professionalism? (2019) (0)
Towards the creation of public spaces (2019) (0)
Transnational Perspectives on Curriculum History. Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education. (2019) (0)
A Conversation With Ragna Adlandsvik (2011) (0)
Editorial Board (2017) (0)
Origins and Destinations: Students Sociocultural Characteristics and Educational Experience at the London Technical and Commercial High School, 1913–35 (2010) (0)
The Teachers of Tomorrow: An Anglo-Saxon Perspective on Restructuring the Professional Lives and the Knowledge of Primary Teachers (2009) (0)
Evaluative self-awareness (2020) (0)
Grid.for.Learning@Clampdown.edu (2002) (0)
Beyond the Subject Monolith: Subject Traditions and Sub-Cultures (2018) (0)
Telling Tales Out of School (2003) (0)
Structure and Mediation (2010) (0)
What might turn social learning into social movements? (2019) (0)
“Schooldays are the Happiest Days of Your Life”: Voices, Lives and Memories (2010) (0)
Editorial Board (2014) (0)
Geography: Aspects of Subject History (2013) (0)
Editorial Board (2016) (0)
The organisation and disorganisation of power (2019) (0)
Downsizing the Watershed (2002) (0)
Life histories and professional practise: data in progress (2008) (0)
Goodson, Ivor F., "Patterns of Curriculum Change," pp. 231-241 in Andy Hargreaves, Ann Lieberman, Michael Fullan, and David Hopkins, eds., International Handbook of Educational Change, Part One. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. (1998) (0)
Schooldays are the happiest days of your life (2008) (0)
The Use of Computers for Classroom Learning. Summative Report, Vol. 2 from the Project: Curriculum and Context in the Use of Computers for Classroom Learning. (1991) (0)
European Dimensions and the Secondary School Curriculum (2018) (0)
A School Curriculum Study (2018) (0)
Introduction: European Dimensions and the Secondary School Curriculum (2018) (0)
The Function of Education in Shaping Chinese National Identity in Colonial Hong Kong (2012) (0)
Subject Status and Curriculum Change (2010) (0)
A Professional life in reforming times (2008) (0)
The Origins of Technical Education in London: Context, Concerns and Curriculum, 1910–1915 (2010) (0)
Goodson, Ivor F., The Changing Curriculum : Studies in Social Construction. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. (1997) (0)
Interview with JosÉ Pacheco (2011) (0)
Academic ‘Subjects’ and Curriculum Change (2013) (0)
Behind the Classroom Door: The Historical Study of the Curriculum (2010) (0)
Interviews with Raimundo Martins and Irene Tourinho in Barcelona (2011) (0)
Lawrence Stenhouse: la enseñanza como investigación (2005) (0)
Exchanging tyrannies (2022) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About Ivor Goodson

What Schools Are Affiliated With Ivor Goodson?

Ivor Goodson is affiliated with the following schools: