John I. Goodlad

John I. Goodlad (1920-2014) was an educational researcher and theorist who published influential models for renewing schools and teacher education. His landmark study A Place Called School (1984) won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book of the Year award, and he authored or co-authored more than thirty books, including The Moral Dimensions of Teaching and Educational Renewal: Better Teachers, Better Schools. He held academic posts at Emory University, the University of Chicago, UCLA, where he served as dean of the Graduate School of Education, and the University of Washington, and was a past president of the American Educational Research Association.