Professor A. Lin GOODWIN (葛文林) is the Thomas More Brennan Endowed Professor of Education at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College. Previously she was Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong (2017-2022), and Vice Dean at Teachers College, Columbia University (2011-2017), where she also held the Edward Evenden Professorship in Education. Professor Goodwin served as AERA Vice President—Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education, 2013-2016.
An internationally renowned teacher education scholar, Professor Goodwin’s research examines teacher/teacher educator beliefs, identities and development; equitable education and powerful teaching for immigrant and minoritized youth; comparative analyses of international teacher education practice and policy; and the experiences of Asian/Asian Americans in U.S. schools. Recent publications include: The Third International Handbook of Educational Change (edited with Andy Hargreaves, Victoria Showunmi, Corrie Stone-Johnson and Jennie Weiner), Let's stop asking whether teachers are professionals. Let’s ask what kinds of professionals we want teachers to be (with Emilie Reagan, National Education Policy Center), and Teacher beliefs about social justice teaching: An international review (with Hangil Kim, International Handbook of Research on Teachers’ Beliefs, 2nd Ed.). She has been recognized for her research and scholarship with awards such as Distinguished Researcher from the AERA SIG: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Education and Research, and Distinguished Scholar from AERA’s Committee on Scholars of Color, and is the National Institute of Education (Singapore) inaugural Dr. Ruth Wong Professor of Teacher Education. In 2022 she received a Spencer Foundation Mentor Award honoring her work with emerging academics and doctoral students. She is an AERA Fellow and the recipient of Division K’s 2023 Legacy Award for her “significant and exemplary contributions to the field of teaching and teacher education.” She is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and the International Academy of Education, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Learning Policy Institute.
Professor Goodwin has served as a consultant and collaborator to a wide variety of organizations including school districts, philanthropic foundations, and higher education institutions, around issues of diversity, educational equity, teacher education and faculty development. Her work has taken her to many different countries such as Brazil, Jordan, Mongolia, Latvia, Singapore, China, Poland, and Finland among others, where she has collaborated with local educators to support quality teaching and teacher development to achieve equitable and inclusive outcomes for all students. She began her career as a special education teacher of secondary school students.