Books by Ivor F. Goodson

In the past decade or so, there has been an increasing interest in employing a combination of archival and life history methods to understand the complexities of schooling. This book explores the history of the Beal Technical School in order to discuss the methods and problems involved in researching the story of an institution.

Provides a series of studies and guidelines for what the author's have termed 'narrative pedagogy.' This book is suitable for an exploration of those narrative processes that can lead to meaningful change and development for individuals and groups within a learning environment and in life-learning.

What happens when a new social technology is imposed on the established social technology of the school? Drawing on research conducted over a ten-year period in three different regions of the Anglo-American developed world, it examines themes arising from the struggle for the social spaces and emerging cyber spaces of schooling;