In memory of
Professor Joyce Goodman (MBE)
It is fitting that Winchester provides the location for a conference in her honour as Joyce was the founder in 2002 of the Centre for History of Women’s Education (CHWE) at the University of Winchester, a network that exemplifies Joyce’s commitment to making connections and mentoring the development of scholars, scholarship and friendship both within and beyond the academy.
Joyce’s career as Professor of History of Education encompassed range of University leadership roles, including Assistant Vice-Chancellor, Dean, and Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer. Joyce also assumed posts of responsibility in national and transnational networks as the editor of History of Education, President of the History of Education Society UK, and secretary of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education. She was a member of CERLIS (Centre de Recherche sur les Liens Sociaux) and served on the advisory board of the Albert Greenfield Digital Centre for the History of Women’s Education at Bryn Mawr College, USA.
Joyce was an honorary member of Network 17 of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) and was awarded an MBE for services to higher education in 2011. A survey of Joyce’s extensive output of scholarly work reveals her intellectual generosity as a collaborator major in publications in the field, notably Gender, Colonialism and Education: the Political Experience of Education; Women and Education, 1800-1980 (Woburn Press 2002) and the four volume Women and Education: Major Themes in Education (Routledge 2011) with Jane Martin, and Girls’ Secondary Education in the Western World (Palgrave 2010/2014), with James Albisetti and Rebecca Rogers. Joyce’s numerous articles and chapters illustrate her breadth of interest in topics such as the League of Nations, the International Committee of Intellectual Co-operation, women’s organisations and travellers as Reta Oldham, Laura Dreyfus Barney and cinematographer Suzanne Karpeles.
Throughout her work runs the theme of transnational exchanges and encounters. Joyce’s intellectual horizons were also without borders as she explored different philosophical, methodological and theoretical approaches to histories of education as illustrated in her recent contribution to Folds of Past, Present and Future: Reconfiguring Contemporary Histories of Education, (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021) and editorial to the special edition of Women’s History Review: Turns and Twists in Histories of Women’s Education (2019), and latterly in her interest in posthumanist strategies that orient the researcher to how human beings come into relation with one another and with non-human life with consequences for notions of temporality and context.