Authors:Professor Ivor Goodson, Ivor Goodson,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: curriculum, history, series, studies, essays, collected, making
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1995-05-01
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0750703210
ISBN-13: 9780750703215

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 result of a substantial political contest covering a century or more. The traditional subject was, in short, invented. The first edition of this book provided a series of challenging insights for those desiring

Author: Ivor F. Goodson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: prospects, series, new, lives, professional, teachers
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1996-04-01
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 0750705140
ISBN-13: 9780750705141

This text provides a discussion of the meaning of teacher professionalism and how it can be improved. Distinguishing between six different models of meaning of professionalism, it takes an international perspective in looking at the realities behind the working lives of teachers.

Author: Ivor F. Goodson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: curriculum, history, studies, change, school, subjects
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1993-02-01
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 075070098X
ISBN-13: 9780750700986

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 the late 1960s and early 1970s. He highlights how subjects owe their formation and accreditation to competing status and their power to compete in the provision of ’worthwhile’ knowledge and considers subject

Author: Ivor Goodson
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
Keywords: curriculum, policy, research, helm, series, croom, subjects, change, school
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1983-09
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0709911041
ISBN-13: 9780709911043

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 the late 1960s and early 1970s. He highlights how subjects owe their formation and accreditation to competing status and their power to compete in the provision of ’worthwhile’ knowledge and considers subject

Author: Ivor Goodson
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
Keywords: history, curriculum, perspectives, international
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1986-12
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 0709938268
ISBN-13: 9780709938262

This book presents comparative data from a range of countries which help define the methodologies employed in curriculum history. It also explores some of the major curriculum issues uncovered in historical studies.

Authors:Ivor F. Goodson, Colin J. Marsh,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: teachers, library, guide, subjects, school, studying
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0750705884
ISBN-13: 9780750705882

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.

Authors:Stephen J. Ball, Ivor F. Goodson, Meg Maguire,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: education, policy, heritage, journal, times, globalisation, new, years
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2007-04-20
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0415425980
ISBN-13: 9780415425988

Education, 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: education, globalisation and new times policy theory and method policy and equity. Compiled by the journal’s editors, Stephen Ball, Ivor Goodson and Meg Maguire, the book illustrates the development of the field of education policy studies