Ivor Goodson

Goodson was born in 1943 in Woodley, a village near Reading, Berkshire. 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. ==References==