Romances with Schools is a memoir rooted in a lifetime spent in education – learning, teaching, researching, and thinking about what education is, what should be its purposes, and how these goals are best accomplished. John Goodlad has written a retrospective of his experiences in public schooling and higher education, through his eyes at different stages of his life – as pupil, teacher, teacher of teachers, and researcher. He moves in and out of the problems and issues pertaining to the conduct of schooling over a long period of years using an anecdotal, chronological narrative filled with the reflections of someone always immersed in the philosophy and ideas of education.
Goodlad has lived and worked over a time when dramatic changes occurred in education. Growing up in an isolated area of rural Canada, he attended elementary school in North Vancouver, with minimal facilities, no sports, no formal graduations, and no extracurricular activities, in a world that had just fallen into the grip of the Great Depression. Through the prism of his own early years in school, he remarks on many of the larger issues in education with which he came to be intimately connected and which are still in question today – the value of single-sex schooling, the proper place of examinations and testing, the fundamental aims of education.
Unlike many students in those years, he managed to go on to high school. Hard economic times made it advisable to keep more young people in school, in order not further to glut an already overcrowded job market, and those who did well could hope to continue, although the legal age for leaving school then was 14. In fact, it was during the Depression that the age was raised to 16, and Goodlad addresses key issues related to the proper functioning of education as an academic exercise versus vocational preparation.
Throughout the book, the author entwines his personal experiences with social reflections and thoughts on how it all connected to his ultimate professional concerns – what comprises a good school and good education and what must be done to bring both to fruition. In a sense, this book is a history of education in the twentieth century from someone at its center. It is a memoir with educational themes, the thoughts of a highly intelligent, widely experienced professional thinker on topics of crucial importance to society.
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John I. Goodlad, PhD is President of the Institute for Educational Inquiry in Seattle and author of A Place Called School, the groundbreaking study of the effectiveness of the American system of schooling. A leading force in improving public schooling in North America, he developed and directed the Englewood Project, an experiment in nongraded schooling on the elementary level, and served as Dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Education for sixteen years.
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