Curriculum, personal narrative and the social future [electronic resource] / Ivor F. Goodson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Curriculum change processes and historical periods -- 2. The context of cultural inventions : learning and curriculum -- 3. Times of educational change : towards an understanding of patterns of historical and cultural refraction -- 4. Curriculum as narration : tales from the children of the colonised / with Ruth Deakin Crick -- 5. The rise of the life narrative -- 6. Exploring the teacher's professional knowledge : constructing identity and community / with Arda L. Cole -- 7. Listening to professional life stories : some cross-professional perspectives -- 8. All the lonely people : the struggle for private meaning and public purpose in education -- 9. The educational researcher as public intellectual -- 10. Knowledge, personal narrative and the social future.