ABSTRACT
John I. Goodlad has taught at every grade level from the first grade through to advanced graduate seminars. He began his professional career in a one-room rural school in British Columbia, Canada. Receiving his teaching license in 1939, he was a teacher before becoming a principal in 1941. Goodlad is a prolific writer. His inquiry into, and reflection upon, education has resulted in more than thirty books, 200 journal articles, and eighty book chapters and encyclopedia entries. As an educator, Goodlad is unique in the sense that he is a researcher, an activist and a philosopher. Non-grading is Goodlad's first and sustained research theme based on his personal professional experience in education. It is from this research theme that others evolved. Teacher education is another major theme in Goodlad's professional life. His work in this area has the three characteristics.
