Includes bibliographical references (p. [134]-143) and index.

Ivor Goodson gives an examination of the state of professional knowledge in teaching and teacher education. It argues that a more active notion of teachers' professional knowledge can, and should, be explored and consolidated by work which focuses on theteacher's life and work using more reflective modes.

Part 1 -- Introduction: forms of professional knowledge -- Education as a practical matter -- Representing teachers: bringing teachers back in -- 'The story so far' : personal knowledge and the political -- Developing life and work histories of teachers -- Part 2 -- Introduction : studying educational change -- The personality of change -- Personal missions and professional development -- Social histories of educational change -- The educational researcher as a public intellectual -- Educational change and the crisis of professionalism -- Bibliography -- Index.

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