John (Inkster) Goodlad

Educator, born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He became professor and director of the University of California, Los Angeles Elementary School (1960–85) and dean of the Graduate School of Education (1967–83). In his major study, A Place Called School (1984), he criticized public schools' failure to teach analytical thinking.

Goodlad's most recent book, In Praise of Education (1997), defines education as a fundamental right in democratic societies, essential to developing individual and collective democratic intelligence. Goodlad has designed and promoted several educational reform programs, and has conducted major studies of educational change. Books he has authored or co-authored include The Moral Dimensions of Teaching, Places Where Teachers Are Taught, Teachers for Our Nation's Schools, and Educational Renewal: Better Teachers, Better Schools.

Goodlad has published over 30 books, over 100 chapters in other books, and more than 200 journal articles. His best known book, A Place Called School (1984), received the Outstanding Book of the Year Award from the American Educational Research Association and the Distinguished Book of the Year Award from Kappa Delta Pi. He is a past president of the American Educational Research Association and, in 1993, received that organization's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Educational Research.