Ivor Goodson

Ivor Frederick Goodson (born 1943) is a British educationalist. He remained at Sussex for several years, before moving the University of Western Ontario in 1986, and to the University of East Anglia in 1996.

Books Goodson's books include: School Subjects and Curriculum Change (Croom Helm, 1983; 3rd ed., Falmer Press, 1993) The Making Of The Curriculum: Collected Essays (Falmer Press, 1988; 3rd ed., 2004) Studying Curriculum (Open University Press, 1994) Studying School Subjects: A Guide (with Colin J. Marsh, Falmer Press, 1996) The Changing Curriculum: Studies in Social Construction (Peter Lang Publishing, 1997) Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics: The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson (Routledge, 2005) Developing Narrative Theory: Life Histories and Personal Representation (Routledge, 2013) Critical Narrative as Pedagogy (with Scherto Gill, Bloomsbury, 2014) Democracy, Education and Research: The Struggle for Public Life (with John Schostak, Routledge 2019). Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life: A Transformative Vision of Human Well Being (with Garett Thomson, and Scherto Gill, Routledge, 2020).

He is also an editor or co-editor of several edited volumes.

Awards and honours 2020 A festschrift volume in Goodson's honour was published. 2019 Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). 2018 Awarded John Nisbet Fellowship Award by British Educational Research Association for outstanding contribution to educational research over his career.

2007 Awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Gothenburg.