Gender, Colonialism and Education (co-edited with Jane Martin) examines the ways in which gender intersects with informal and formal education in England, Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, USA and the Netherlands. The book looks at various issues including: citizenship; authority; colonialism and education; and the construction of national and transnatioal identities. Goodman, Joyce, and Jane Martin, eds.

Women and Education, 1800-1980 examines and celebrates the lives, aims, and achievements of six British women educational activists within nineteenth- and twentieth-century history: Elizabeth Hamilton, Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Mary Dendy, Shena Simon and Margaret Cole.  Employing a biographical approach, it adopts eminist and historical models to explore how these women resisted gender roles and

Social Change in the History of British Education (co-edited with Gary McCulloch and William Richardson) edited collection provides an overall review and analysis of the history of education and of its key research priorities in the British context. It investigates the extent to which education has contributed historically to social change in Britain, how it has

Women and Education: Major Themes ( co-edited with Jane Martin) is a four-volume collection of foundational and cutting-edge contributions. Issues affecting women and education cannot be analysed in territorial isolation; while it is possible in many parts of the Western world to cite evidence of widening opportunities, choices, and potential in women’s lives, the gendered nature

Girls’ Secondary Education in the Western World: From the 18th to the 20th Centuries (co-edited with Rebecca Rogers and James Albisetti) has a dual aim. It looks at how specific national political and cultural contexts shaped the emergence of girls’ schools in Great Britain and Ireland, France, Germany and Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Belgium,