Life of a School

Ivor F. Goodson is Professor of Learning Theory at the University of Brighton, and Joss Owen Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth (UK). He is the founding editor of the Journal of Education Policy. Ivor is also a Research Fellow at the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace.Christopher J. Anstead earned his PhD in History from the University of Western Ontario. He has published a number of studies examining the interplay of leadership, society and organizational culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As the Managing Director of KeyWillow Consulting, Chris now applies those lessons to the present-day world of the private sector.

• Contents: Introduction: Studying the Life of a School – Discovering Qualitative Sources – Collecting Oral Sources – Developing a Narrative Overview – Inside a Research Project: Episodes from a Methodological Diary – Conjunctures and Critical Incidents – Curriculum History – Studying School Subjects: Patterns of Gender and Class – Studying the Everyday Life of a School.