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EARLY EDUCATION

Goodale grew up in an intellectual environment where she was encouraged to have inductive and deductive reasoning through games and puzzles. These are the skills that would later help her in her ethnographic field work in places like Australia and Papua New Guinea, and also in understanding of the role of women in society. As a young girl she attended Oldfields School in Maryland which was an all girls school. During that time she is believed to have had undiagnosed dyslexia and with the help of her teacher Ms. Anderson, was able work towards overcoming this challenge. In 1944 she graduated from Oldfields and she later went on to study Anthropology at Radcliffe College.

HIGHER EDUCATION

Goodale received her B.A in 1948 and M.A in 1951 from Radcliffe College. When she first started her undergraduate studies at Radcliffe University she intended to study medicine or Geography. She was encouraged by fellow classmate Carleton S. Coon who was also a Harvard Anthropologist and in her sophomore year she enrolled in Anthropology, a move that changed her life tremendously. While still at Radcliffe University she cofounded the Harvard-Radcliffe Anthropology club with Robert Dyson and served as its first president.

Goodale received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959. While still a student in the University of Pennsylvania she served as the newsletter editor for the venerable Philadelphia Anthropological Society and she would later on help found and then presided over the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), the premier organization of Pacific anthropologists.Before receiving her Ph. D Goodale worked as Carleton Coon’s assistant.When Coon declined Charles Mountford's invitation to join his National Geographic Society expedition, and go to Melville Island to study the Australian Aboriginal population Goodale took his place. She began her ten month doctoral research in Australia in 1954 and she got her Ph.D in 1959.