Category: FORUM
Comprehensive education means unlearning ‘ability’ and all its works
Formal state education continues to be organised around the false idea that young people are of fixed innate ‘ability’. The difficulty of moving beyond this damaging notion is one reason, Patrick Yarker argues, why the comprehensive ideal has yet to be fully realised.
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Back to a comprehensive future!
What is needed to re-invigorate the Socialist Educational Association movement for comprehensive education and how the SEA Manifesto for Education can help.
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A Manifesto for Education
James Whiting (SEA General Secretary) and Ian Duckett (SEA NEC) introduce the Socialist Educational Association’s Education Manifesto, a document which challenges the Labour Party to think in radical and thorough-going ways about the education service.
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Call for Papers: New thinking!
Contributions are invited for the Spring 2024 number of FORUM (66/1) for which the copy date is Friday 10 November, 2023.
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Failure by admission
Grammar school initiatives to attract more children from lower income families have made little impact and the Government appears indifferent. Nuala Burgess, Chair of the campaigning organisation Comprehensive Future, considers the latest evidence.
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First, do no harm
FORUM’s summer number addresses the way teaching is being reconfigured by the assault on Initial Teacher Education and the erosion of teacher professionalism. It is introduced by Patrick Yarker.
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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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