Frederick (Fred, Skip) Goodman is Professor of Education Emeritus at the University of Michigan School of Education, Ann Arbor.
[1] He created the influential Master's of Arts and Certification (MAC) Program [2] that pioneered the teacher training residency and full-year internship model in the early 1990s.
[4] Goodman's research was deeply inspired by the work of the American Educational Philosopher John Dewey, constructivism, and pragmatism (as exemplified by Richard Rorty).
Because he works to embody Dewey's idea that "experience is education" he did not emphasize publications but instead focused on doing and being in collaboration with others in service of learning.
[5][6] He also traveled South America with Ivan Illich and is thanked at the beginning of Illich's most famous book on education Deschooling Society.