Category: Journals
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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Political turmoil and financial oil – sketching the anatomy of oil’s markets
Liz Truss famously blamed ‘the markets’ for her failures in government. James Marriott and Gavin Bridge take this as a starting point for unpicking the role of markets, and, crucially, their connection to the realm of oil and gas.
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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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Call for papers: Soundings 84 & the crisis in Higher Education
The Soundings collective is planning a special issue on the crisis in Higher Education and would love to hear from potential contributors.
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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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The spirit of resistance: Mick Lynch in conversation with Gary Younge
Category: Soundings
A wide-ranging discussion on trade unions, class, Keir Starmer, climate change, Black Lives Matter - and how to win the next general election for Labour.
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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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