Category: FORUM
Hinges and Turns
Colin Richards considers the changes to school inspection over recent decades which have culminated in what he calls ‘a kind of dominated “professionalism”’. He looks forward to the prospect of educational renewal under a different government.
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FORUM 65.1 Spring 2023: Thinking again
Educational developments in Scotland and Wales are a particular focus of the Spring 2023 number of FORUM, which Patrick Yarker introduces.
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Claimocracy and the dismantling of public education
Category: FORUM
Ten years on from Michael Gove’s notorious ‘Enemies of Promise’ article which derided the work of education researchers, Helen Gunter considers how the rise of government by assertion erodes democracy.
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NEU members on strike: a struggle for the future of state education
Category: FORUM
Howard Stevenson outlines why huge number of teachers have vote for strike action.
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A fully trust-led system?
Category: FORUM
Patrick Yarker introduces the latest issue of FORUM, in which the failings of the academisation policy are anatomised, and rejects the view that teaching is ‘delivery’.
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Clyde Chitty 31 August 1944 – 7 November 2022
Category: FORUM
Patrick Yarker writes on behalf of the FORUM Editorial Board in memory of Professor Clyde Chitty, the journal’s long-time editor, indefatigable in the cause of comprehensive education.
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Pockets of resistance
Category: FORUM
In commending the latest issue of FORUM, whose contributors explore various kinds of resistance to current education policy from inside the system, Patrick Yarker is glad to be unsettled.
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Another way, and a better…
Patrick Yarker recommends ‘Another Way of Looking’, a collection of Michael Armstrong's writings freely-available as an e-book.
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Vuh-ah-puh
Category: FORUM
Patrick Yarker introduces ‘Margaret Meek—A Literate Life’ by Judith Graham, freely-available as a FORUM e-book and an ideal entry-point into Meek’s extensive writing about literacy.
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