Connie Goddard

Connie Goddard is a long-time Chicagoan now living in New Jersey. Her new book, Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity (University of Illinois Press, 2024), merges history and storytelling to relay accounts of three distinctive Progressive Era schools, one in Chicago, another in New Jersey, and a third in North Dakota. Rooted in the ideas of John Dewey, it reviews priorities of people who shaped industrial education while offering a provocative vision for realizing its potential today.

During the 1990s, Goddard was a columnist for Skyline, correspondent for Publishers Weekly,  an active freelancer, editor of Chicago Books in Review, and co-author of two books on Chicago. Her academic career began at Teachers College, where she worked as an editor while beginning her story of education history. Moving between publishing and teaching, between New York and Chicago, she gathered decades of experience before pursuing a Ph.D. at UIC; her 2005 dissertation was on Dewey’s Chicago colleague, Ella Flagg Young.

Learn more at: http://www.conniegoddard.com.