Education Renewal: A Path Less Trod A Conversation With Dr. John I. Goodlad

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John I. Goodlad is president of the nonprofit Institute for Educational Inquiry in Seattle and a founder of the Center for Educational Renewal at the University of Washington. He held professorships at Agnes Scott College and Emory University in Georgia, the University of Chicago, and UCLA (where he was dean of the Graduate School of Education from 1967 to 1983) before coming to the University of Washington in 1984. Dr. Goodlad is the author of over thirty books on education (several of which have been translated into foreign languages), including the highly acclaimed A Place Called School (McGraw-Hill, 1984), Teachers for Our Nation's Schools (Jossey-Bass, 1990), and In Praise of Education (Teachers College Press, 1997). He has received numerous national awards in recognition of his work, including the prestigious Harold T. McGraw Prize in Education in 1999, the James Bryant Conant Award for Outstanding Service to Education from the Education Commission of the States in 2000, the first Brock International Prize in Education in 2002, the New York Academy of Public Education Medal in 2003, and the American Education Award from the American Association of School Administrators in 2004. Dr. Goodlad's latest books, all published in 2004, include: Education for Everyone: Agenda for Education in a Democracy, written with Corinne Mantle-Bromley and Stephen J. Goodlad; The Teaching Career (co edited with Timothy J. McMannon), a 20th anniversary edition of A Place Called School; and, Romances with Schools: A Life of Education. Dr. Goodlad holds honorary doctorates from twenty colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.