Professional Knowledge, Professional Lives by Ivor Goodson

Professional Knowledge, Professional Lives by Ivor Goodson

Professional Knowledge, Professional Lives sets out to examine the state of professional knowledge with regard to teaching and teacher education. The current situation of professional knowledge is scrutinised with particular regard to the location of educational study within the faculties of education. The fate of disciplinary patterns of study, which have come under attack from the proponents of more practical perspectives, are also examined. Practical perspectives promoted by a wide spectrum of advocates have become part of the fashionable discourse around teacher education recently. These perspectives are interrogated and some of the results of such practical fundamentalism are held up for scrutiny. The author argues that confining professional knowledge entirely within the practical domain would not seem to be a well-thought out strategy for raising professional standards. A more active notion of teachers' professional knowledge can, and should, be explored and consolidated by work which focuses on the teacher's life and work, using more reflective and 'public intellectual' modes.

Ivor Goodson holds a Chair in Education at the School of Education and Professional Development at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, UK.

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ISBN 13	9780335204113
ISBN 10	0335204112
Title	Professional Knowledge, Professional Lives
Author	Ivor Goodson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open University Press
Year published	2003-09-16
Number of pages	160
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