Lawrence Wishart Blog

Call for papers: The Moment of ‘76

Category: FORUM, Journals

Contributions are invited for the autumn 2026 number of FORUM (68.3) for which the copy date is Monday 20 July.  The number will appear online at the beginning of November with a hard copy version available soon afterwards.

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Does the Student Grouping Study really support a call to back setting?

Category: FORUM, Journals

Rachel Marks looks closely at a recent and much-reported EEF study. She finds it falls far short of the headline claims

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Soundings Call for papers April 2026 Cultures of Hope

Category: Journals, Soundings

Continuing to seek to better understand the conjuncture implies a continued belief in the possibility of change, as well as commitment to work for it. This issue will focus on cultural and political resources for hope.

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FORUM Blog March Rage for order

Category: FORUM, Journals

With Reform UK polling strongly, Patrick Yarker commends the spring number of FORUM, whose lead article examines the malign phenomenon of contemporary right-wing populism.

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The futures of teaching

Category: FORUM, Journals

Will the work of teaching become increasingly standardised as an individual teacher’s agency is further constrained?

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FORUM 68.2  Summer 2026 – Call for papers

Category: FORUM, Journals

Special issue:  ‘The futures of teaching’, co-edited by Professor Viv Ellis and Professor Marie Brennan

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Comprehensive education: completed or defeated? The Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture 2025

Category: FORUM, Journals

FORUM and the Socialist Education Association co-sponsor the annual Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture. Patrick Yarker gives an account of this year’s event.

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Unanswerable evidence?

Category: FORUM, Journals

The Autumn number of FORUM is now available. Patrick Yarker outlines how its contributors examine the purposes of education at a time of widespread child poverty and many another crisis.

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Call for Papers: History, Memory and the Past in Twentieth Century Communism

Category: Journals, Twentieth Century Communism

The proposed issue welcomes proposals on manipulatory practices developed by socialist states and communist parties

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