Forum for Promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education – Volume 58 Number 1 (2014)

Education Crisis

FORUM FOR PROMOTING 3-19 COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION – VOLUME 56 NUMBER 1 (2014)

Just published online at: www.wwwords.co.uk/forum/content/pdfs/56/issue56_1.asp
[printed copies will be posted late-February]

FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education
Volume 56 Number 1, 2014, ISSN 0963-8253

ADVENTURES IN EDUCATION

Patrick Yarker. Editorial. Adventures in Education OPEN ACCESS

Deb Wilenski. ‘We’re a little bit lost aren’t we?’: outdoor exploration, real and fantastical lands, and the educational possibilities of disorientation

Mary Jane Drummond. Learning from Children: learning from Caroline Pratt (1867-1954). Early Progressives in Early Years Education

Jenifer Smith with Rebecca Griffiths. Writing Spaces, Professional Places: how a teachers’ writing group can nurture teaching identities

David Hewgill. My NQT Year: a primary teacher’s account of his first year of teaching

Rachel Marks. The Dinosaur in the Classroom: what we stand to lose through ability-grouping in the primary school

Vicky Grube. Beautiful Nonsense: children’s authentic art-making and Deleuzian difference

Jane McGregor. In Progress Internationally: student voice work in four countries

Roger Holdsworth. Spaces for Partnerships. Teach the Teacher: student-led professional development for teachers

Jean Courtney. Ontario’s Student Voice Initiative

Emily Nelson. Enacting Student Voice through Governance Partnerships in the Classroom: rupture of the ordinary for radical practice

Alison Cook-Sather. Student–Staff Partnerships as Transformational: the ‘Students as Learners and Teachers’ program as a case study in changing higher education

Rami Abu Zarad. A Teacher’s Retrospective View of the Syrian Educational System

Mike Cole. Comprehensive Education Bolivarian-style: the alternative school in Barrio Pueblo Nuevo, Venezuela

Tony Cotton. A Matter of Ideology: a response to the Draft Primary Mathematics Programmes of Study

Trevor Fisher. What Is To Be Done? Possibilities for the Counter-offensive

John Yandell. Classrooms as Sites of Curriculum Delivery or Meaning-making: whose knowledge counts?

Robin Alexander. The Best That Has Been Thought and Said?
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Forum for Promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education: Volume 55 Number 3 (2013)

Precarious Education

FORUM FOR PROMOTING 3-19 COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION – VOLUME 55 NUMBER 3 (2013)

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FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education
Volume 55 Number 3, 2013, ISSN 0963-8253

THE NEED FOR A COUNTER OFFENSIVE

CONTENTS:

Clyde Chitty. Editorial OPEN ACCESS

Clyde Chitty. Secondary School Examinations: a historical perspective

Martin Allen. ‘Raising Standards’ or Reducing Aspirations and Opportunities Still Further? Michael Gove and Examination Reforms

Tony Cooper. You May Start Writing Now

Patrick Yarker. Gove’s War

Bernard Barker. The Enigmatic Mr Gove

Derek Gillard. Turning in Their Graves? A Tale of Two Coalitions – and What Happened in Between

David Kitchener. What Price Free Schools? The Continued Insidious Privatisation of UK State Education.

Howard Stevenson. Teachers on Strike: a struggle for the future of teaching?

Jess Edwards. Fighting Gove’s Nightmare Vision for Primary Education: A Charter for Primary Education

John Wadsworth. Like an ‘Uncontrolled Toddler’ Elizabeth Truss Risks Causing Chaos in England’s Nursery Education and Child Care Sector

Clare Kelly & Maggie Pitfield. School Direct: a hastily constructed model or a systematically designed campaign?

Michael Fielding. Still ‘Learning to Be Human’: the radical educational legacy of John MacMurray

Gary McCulloch. The Cause of Nowadays and the End of History? School History and the Centenary of the First World War

Philip Huckin. Memories of The CherwellSchool

Tom Buzzard. I Do Not Believe in ‘Intelligence’ or ‘Ability’ or ‘Aptitude’- and Neither Should You

Fiona Carnie. Developing Relationships between Parents and Schools

John Black. ‘Varmits and Turnips’: personal experiences of a secondary modern education, 1958-1962

BOOK REVIEWS
An Aims-based Curriculum: the significance of human flourishing for schools (Michael J. Reiss & John White), reviewed by Mary Jane Drummond
New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010 (Clyde Chitty), reviewed by Derek Gillard
New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010 (Clyde Chitty), reviewed by Roy Lowe
Modernity Britain: opening the box, 1957-1959 (David Kynaston), reviewed by Clyde Chitty

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Michael Gove

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Forum for Promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education – Archive

Archive

FORUM FOR PROMOTING 3-19 COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION – ARCHIVE

FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education

Every issue of FORUM from its first issue in 1958 is now freely available online at www.wwwords.co.uk/forum/content/maincontents.asp

For over fifty years FORUM has been in the thick of the struggle for comprehensive education in Britain.  Back in the Autumn of 1958 the inaugural issue declared that the journal would concern itself with four principal areas: the new types of school being developed around the country, the steps modern schools were taking to transcend their limitations, the attempt to re-think the way pupils were organised (which meant the movement away from streaming), and new approaches to the content of education.  The journal would provide a basis of facts and ideas, and a locus for lively discussion and the exchange of experiences.  Its pages would be steeped in the issues and questions of the day, for they would be written by those working in the new schools and committed to the new trends in education.

Now the FORUM archive offers readers the chance freely to access every single article ever published in the journal since its inception.  As well as scholarly pieces by writers such as Brian Simon, Michael Armstrong and Constance Rosen, readers will find first-hand accounts of classroom experience by teachers (for example: ‘teaching unstreamed English’ or ‘introducing Nuffield Science into school’).  They will find analysis of the politics of educational change from commentators as acute as Caroline Benn, Robin Pedley and Clyde Chitty.  They will find opinion and discussion pieces by teachers and academics, evidence presented to public commissions (notably the Plowden Committee), critical symposia, case-studies, book-reviews, even a range of adverts for educational books and materials.  ‘Forward Trends in the Treatment of Backward Children’, anyone?

FORUM declared itself a journal by and for teachers, administrators, advisers, parents, governors and councillors.  Their words, and the words of academics, fill the pages of the archive.  Politically engaged, always internationalist (for a while the journal even boasted an American correspondent), rooted in real classrooms and schools, and enduringly at the leading-edge of progressive educational change, the archive is a testimony to victories and defeats as experienced by those who participated in the struggle, and continue to do so.  Multi-racial and anti-racist education, testing and teaching, education 16-19, the 1988 Education Reform Act, assessment, provision for the rising-fives, new technologies in school, the reflective practitioner…  Decade by decade, such sub-headings indicate the wealth of material accessible now at www.wwwords.co.uk/forum/content/maincontents.asp

The Editorial Board of FORUM, and their publishers, are immensely grateful to Angela Cutts, Librarian at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, and to her colleagues, who so kindly (and very bravely) allowed their stock of printed back numbers to be copied to create this archive.

 

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‘Cheerful Sin’ – a song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8

 

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Forum for Promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education: Volume 55 Number 2 (2013)

Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory

FORUM FOR PROMOTING 3-19 COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION: VOLUME 55 NUMBER 2 (2013)

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FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education
Volume 55 Number 2, 2013, ISSN 0963-8253

SPECIAL ISSUE

Co-operative Education for a New Age?
Guest Editor: TOM WOODIN

CONTENTS

Tom Woodin & Michael Fielding. Editorial. Co-operative Education for a New Age? OPEN ACCESS

Henry Tam. Cooperative Problem-Solving and Education

Ruth Martin. Co-operative Problem-Solving at the RoyalDocksCommunitySchool

Wendy Drewery. Restorative Justice Practice: cooperative problem-solving in New Zealand’s schools

Anne Walker. Why Teach Cooperative Problem-Solving in Adult Education?

Sarah Jones. Co-operation: the antidote to isolated misery

Phil Arnold. Making Co-operative Ideas Work

Gail Davidge. Some ‘get it’ more than others: cultivating a co-operative ethos in uncertain times

Patrick Roach. Reasons to Co-operate: co-operative solutions for schools

Nigel Todd. The Wallsend Owenites

Keith Vernon. Co-operative Education and the State, c.1895-1935

Ander Delgado. Co-operatives, Democracy and Education: the Basque ikastolas in the 1960s and 1970s

GENERAL ARTICLES

Clyde Chitty. Caroline DeCamp Benn and the Comprehensive Education Movement

Jane Martin. Caroline DeCamp Benn and the Comprehensive Education Movement: the biographer’s tale

John Bolt. A Better Future for our Schools

Landmark Freedom of Information Victory for British Humanist Association OPEN ACCESS

BOOK REVIEW

Unleashing Greatness: getting the best from an academised system (Academies Commission), reviewed by Clyde Chitty

 

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‘Cheerful Sin’ – a song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8

 

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Forum for Promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education: Volume 55 Number 1 (2013)

Education

FORUM FOR PROMOTING 3-19 COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION: VOLUME 55 NUMBER 1 (2013)

Just published online at: www.wwwords.co.uk/forum/content/pdfs/55/issue55_1.asp

[Printed copies will be posted mid-April]

FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education
Volume 55 Number 1  2013     ISSN 0963-8253

SPECIAL ISSUE
THIS WAY OUT: teachers and pupils escaping from fixed-ability thinking and practice
Guest Editors: MARY JANE DRUMMOND & PATRICK YARKER

CONTENTS:

Mary Jane Drummond & Patrick Yarker. Editorial. The Enduring Problem of Fixed Ability: but is a new conversation beginning? OPEN ACCESS

Michael Armstrong. The Brian Simon Memorial Lecture 2012. Education as Reconstruction: another way of looking at primary education OPEN ACCESS

Rachel Marks. ‘The Blue Table Means You Don’t Have a Clue’: the persistence of fixed-ability thinking and practices in primary mathematics in English schools

Julian Stern. Surprise in Schools: Martin Buber and dialogic schooling

Terry Wrigley. Beyond ‘Ability’: some European alternatives

Gwen Tressider & Anne Watson. The Possibilities and Difficulties of Teaching Secondary Mathematics in All-attainment Groups

Holly Linklater. Teaching and the Individuality of Everybody

Lani Florian. Preparing Teachers to Work with Everybody: a curricular approach to the reform of teacher education

John Cornwall. What Makes an Inclusive Teacher? Can Fish Climb Trees? Mapping the European Agency Profile of Inclusive Teachers to the English System

Annabelle Dixon. Differentiation, Resistance and Courage: at work in the infant school

Mary Jane Drummond & Susan Hart, with Mandy Swann. An Alternative Approach to School Development: the children are the evidence, pages 121-132

Sally Tomlinson. From Defective Loafers to Ignorant Yobs: low attainers in a global knowledge economy

Jo Boaler. Ability and Mathematics: the mindset revolution that is reshaping education

Patrick Yarker. ‘Can I have me on here?’: ‘ability’ and the language of pupil-progress

Amy Milik & Mark Boylan. Valuing Choice as an Alternative to Fixed-ability Thinking and Teaching in Primary Mathematics

 

BOOK REVIEWS
Index for Inclusion: developing learning and participation in schools (Tony Booth & Mel Ainscow), and Education, Education, Education: reforming England’s schools (Andrew Adonis), reviewed by Clyde Chitty

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For all editorial matters, including articles offered for publication, please contact the Editor, Professor Clyde Chitty, 19 Beaconsfield Road, Bickley, Bromley BR1 2BL, United Kingdom (clydechitty379@btinternet.com).

 

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‘Cheerful Sin’ – a song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8

 

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Forum for Promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education: Volume 54 Number 3 (2012)

Education Crisis

FORUM FOR PROMOTING 3-19 COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION: VOLUME 54 NUMBER 3 (2012)

Just published online at: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/forum/content/pdfs/54/issue54_3.asp

[Printed copies will be posted mid-December]

FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education
Volume 54 Number 3  2012     ISSN 0963-8253

Michael Fielding. Editorial OPEN ACCESS

Peter Moss. Readiness, Partnership, a Meeting Place? Some Thoughts on the Possible Relationship between Early Childhood and Compulsory School Education

Robin Alexander. Neither National Nor a Curriculum?

Colin Richards. Omnishambles: reactions to the second year of Coalition education policies

Jon Berry. Teachers’ Professional Autonomy in England: are neo-liberal approaches incontestable?

Ron Glatter. Towards Whole System Improvement

John Morgan. The Political Economies of Radical Education

Bernard Barker. Grammar Schools: brief flowering of social mobility?

Jane Martin. London’s Jewish Communities and State Education

Catherine Burke. The Decorated School: past potency and present patronage

 

REVIEW SYMPOSIUM
Creating Learning Without Limits (Mandy Swann, Alison Peacock, Susan Hart & Mary Jane Drummond), introduced by Clyde Chitty, reviewed by Tony Booth and Colin Richards

BOOK REVIEWS

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: how testing and choice are undermining education (Diane Ravitch), reviewed by Clyde Chitty
Changing Schools: alternative ways to make a world of difference (Terry Wrigley, Pat Thomson & Bob Lingard, Eds), reviewed by Michael Fielding

 

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For all editorial matters, including articles offered for publication, please contact the Editor, Professor Clyde Chitty, 19 Beaconsfield Road, Bickley, BromleyBR1 2BL, United Kingdom (clydechitty379@btinternet.com).

In the event of problems concerning a subscription, or difficulty in gaining access to the journal articles on the website, please contact the publishers at info@symposium-books.co.uk

 

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Brian Simon Memorial Lecture 2012

Brian Simon

BRIAN SIMON MEMORIAL LECTURE 2012

You are warmly invited to the

BRIAN SIMON MEMORIAL LECTURE 2012

Education as Reconstruction: Another Way of Looking at Primary Education
MICHAEL ARMSTRONG

Clarke Hall, Institute of Education, University of London
Saturday 24th November 2012, 2.15 pm – 4.00 pm
FREE ADMISSION (no pre-registration, just turn up on the day)

Michael Armstrong was one of the co-authors of Children, Their World, Their Education, the final report of the The Cambridge Primary Review, and in particular of the chapters on the values and aims of primary education. In his lecture Michael will argue that the apparently triumphant standards agenda fails to recognise or to promote children’s distinctive powers of thought and action and is a betrayal of their intellectual needs and interests. He calls for a radically alternative approach to primary education, founded on the centrality of the imagination and he demonstrates the creativity that lies at the heart of learning by means of an extended example of one six-year-old child’s entry into the world of literature.

Michael began his long teaching career at Wandsworth Comprehensive School, London, in 1959. From 1964 to 1970 he was a research officer, first at the Institute of Community Studies, where he worked with Michael Young, with whom he wrote New Look at Comprehensive Schools (1964), and later at the Nuffield Foundation Resources for Learning Project, directed by Tim McMullen. He returned to the classroom in 1970 as a teacher at the radical Leicestershire Upper School, Countesthorpe College. In 1976 he left Countesthorpe in order to carry out research and to teach at Sherard Primary School in Melton Mowbray. During this time he wrote his first book, Closely Observed Children: the diary of a primary classroom. In 1981 he became headteacher of Harwell Primary School in Oxfordshire, where he remained until his retirement in 1999. Since 1986 he has also taught each summer on the MA summer programme of the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA, as a visiting Professor of English. Since his retirement from Harwell in 1999 he has continued to write, lecture and carry out research into children’s learning, both in England and in the USA where he still teaches every summer. His second book, Children Writing Stories was published in 2006 and a collection of essays entitled What Children Know: essays on children’s literary and visual art, came out in 2011. Michael joined the Editorial Board of FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education (www.wwwords.co.uk/FORUM) in 1964 and has been Chairperson of the Editorial Board since 1994.

 

An A4 ‘poster’ can be downloaded here.

 

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Fixed Ability Thinking – Call for Papers

Education

FIXED ABILITY THINKING – CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special issue of FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education

‘Fixed Ability’ Thinking, and Ability-based Practices in English Schools’

This Special Issue of FORUM (www.wwwords.co.uk/FORUM) will re-examine the enduring problem of ‘fixed-ability’ thinking, and ability-based practices in English schools. FORUM board members are increasingly concerned about the way the language of ‘ability’ pervades current thinking about teaching and learning, and the proliferation of divisive approaches to curriculum, assessment and the grouping of children and young people.

It is time to revisit and strengthen our professional understanding of the deep and lasting educational damage caused by ‘fixed-ability’ thinking and practices. We invite readers to contribute compelling accounts of alternative approaches to teaching and learning, free from determinist assumptions about ‘ability’ and from the belief that there are knowable and predictable limits to each child’s learning capacity.

We hope to publish this Special Issue as the first number of 2013, so ask that all final contributions (3000-6000 words) be received no later than 14 December 2012.

Those wishing to contribute should in the first instance contact Mary Jane Drummond: maryjdrummond@yahoo.co.uk

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‘Stagnant’ – a new remix and new video by Cold Hands & Quarter Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkP_Mi5ideo  

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What is the Way Forward? Forum for Promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education – Volume 54 No.1 (2012)

Education Crisis

WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD? FORUM FOR PROMOTING 3-19 COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION – VOLUME 54 NO.1 2012

Just published online at
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[printed copies will be posted mid-April]

FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education
Volume 54 Number 1, 2012, ISSN 0963-8253

WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD?

Clyde Chitty. Editorial. What is the Way Forward?

Caught in the (Education) Act: tackling Michael Gove’s education revolution. Report on 19th November 2011 Conference

Clyde Chitty. A Divided Education System

Melissa Benn. Putting the Alternative Case: a twenty-first-century vision forEngland’s schools

Stephen Ball. Show Me the Money! Neoliberalism at Work in Education

Richard Hatcher. Gove’s Offensive and the Failure of Labour’s Response

Terry Parkin. Do We Need a Middle Tier in Education?

Bernard Barker.ComprehensiveSchools and the Future

Tim Brighouse. Decline and Fall: are state schools and universities on the point of collapse?

Susan Hallam. Streaming and Setting in UK Primary Schools: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study

Brian Matthews. The Labour Party and the Need for Change: values, education and emotional literacy/intelligence

Clive Griggs. Privatisation in Education: further reflections

Lottie Hoare. Margaret Miles: the educational journey of a comprehensive school campaigner

Paul Dash.SecondaryModernSchool Education: an essay in subjugation and repression

Paul Pettinger. The Evidence Base on the Effects of Policy and Practice in Faith Schools

Theo Creber. The Intersection of Community, Culture and Learning Processes within the Setting of a Chinese Complementary School

BOOK REVIEWS
School Wars: the battle for Britain’s education (Melissa Benn), reviewed by Clive Griggs, Bernard Barker and Derek Gillard
Assessing Children’s Learning (Mary Jane Drummond), reviewed by Michael Armstrong
Education for the Inevitable: schooling when the oil runs out (Michael Bassey) reviewed by Colin Richards
Politics and the Primary Teacher (Peter Cunningham), reviewed by Derek Gillard
To Miss With Love (Katharine Birbalsingh), reviewed by Patrick Yarker

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LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTION (campus-wide access). If you are working within an institution that maintains a library, please urge your Librarian to take out a Library subscription so we can provide full access throughout your institution. Detailed information for libraries can be found at http://www.symposium-books.co.uk/downloads/SYM-BOOKS-Rate-List-2012.pdf

For all editorial matters, including articles offered for publication, please contact the Editor, Professor Clyde Chitty, 19 Beaconsfield Road, Bickley, BromleyBR1 2BL, United Kingdom(clydechitty379@btinternet.com).

In the event of problems concerning a subscription, or difficulty in gaining access to the journal articles on the website, please contact the publishers at support@symposium-books.co.uk
 

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‘I believe in the afterlife.

It starts tomorrow,

When I go to work’

Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Human Herbs’ at: http://www.myspace.com/coldhandsmusic (recording) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h7tUq0HjIk (live)

 

‘Human Herbs’ – a new remix and new video by Cold Hands & Quarter Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-vyMtfDAs

‘Stagnant’ – a new remix and new video by Cold Hands & Quarter Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkP_Mi5ideo  

‘The Lamb’ by William Blake – set to music by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw3VloKBvZc

 

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The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk

MySpace Profile: http://www.myspace.com/glennrikowski

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Tackling Michael Gove’s Education Revolution: Caught in the [Education] Act

Malevolent Pixie

TACKLING MICHAEL GOVE’S EDUCATION REVOLUTION: CAUGHT IN THE [EDUCATION] ACT

Tackling Michael Gove’s Education Revolution

CAUGHT IN THE [EDUCATION] ACT

 

Michael Gove’s new Education Act gives the Secretary of State some 50 new powers. What is the agenda behind this shift of power to the centre? What is the role of profit in these plans? How can education be defended? Join the workshops that will be led by our guest speakers to discuss the way forward.

 

10am – 3.30pm Saturday 19th November 2011
University ofLondonUnion,Malet Street,LondonWC1E 7HY

SPEAKERS:

Clyde Chitty/Melissa Benn – A Divided Education System

David Wolfe (Matrix Chambers) – Implications of the new Education Act

Stephen Ball (InstituteofEducation) – Privatisation

Martin Johnson (ATL) – Edubusiness

Sam Ellis (ASCL) – Paying the Price

Christine Blower (NUT) – The International Scene

Patrick Roach (NASUWT) – What Next?
For more information, please go to: http://tinyurl.com/EducationAct2011

 

Conference fee: £20 (including buffet lunch)

Organised and supported by: Anti Academies Alliance, CASE, Comprehensive Future, FORUM (www.wwwords.co.uk/FORUM), ISCH, Socialist Educational Association

 

 

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In Defence of State Education

Paula Allman

IN DEFENCE OF STATE EDUCATION

Just published online at: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/forum/content/pdfs/53/issue53_2.asp
[printed copies will be posted mid-August]

FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education
Volume 53 Number 2, 2011: ISSN 0963-8253

SPECIAL ISSUE
In Defence of State Education

Clyde Chitty. Editorial. Campaigning for State Education

Howard Stevenson. Coalition Education Policy: Thatcherism’s long shadow

Neal Lawson & Ken Spours. Education for the Good Society

Melian Mansfield. The Role of Parents and Governors

Richard Hatcher. The Struggle for Democracy in theLocalSchool System

Patrick Yarker. Knowing Your Mind: teachers, students and the language of ability

Clyde Chitty. Differing Views of Human Intelligence

Richard Harris. Incompetence or Deliberate Manipulation?

Barry Dufour. Social and Political Education in British Schools: 50 years of curriculum development

John Morgan. Enquiring Minds: a radical curriculum project?

David Price. Learning Futures: rebuilding curriculum and pedagogy around student engagement

Sara Candy. RSA Opening Minds: a curriculum for the 21st century

Louise Thomas. Decentralisation for Schools, but Not for Knowledge: the RSA Area Based Curriculum and the limits of localism in Coalition education policy

Kate Stevenson. Music Education under Threat

Ian Creswell. Year 7 Accelerated Learning Curriculum 2006‑2010: from a concept to an outstanding curriculum

Trevor Fisher. Death of Meritocracy Reconsidered

Colin Richards. ‘Gove Moves in Mysterious Ways His Blunders to Perform’: an epistolary critique (with apologies to William Cowper)
Access to the full texts of most articles is restricted to those who have a Personal subscription, or those whose institution has a Library subscription. However, all articles become free-to-view two years after first publication.

PERSONAL SUBSCRIPTION. Subscription to the three printed 2011 issues (including online access to all available past issues) is available to private individuals at a cost of US$70.00 (approximately £43.00). If you wish to subscribe you may do so immediately at www.wwwords.co.uk/subscribeFORUM.asp

LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTION (campus-wide access). If you are working within an institution that maintains a library, please urge your Librarian to take out a Library subscription so we can provide full access throughout your institution. Detailed information for libraries can be found at www.symposium-books.co.uk/downloads/SYM-BOOKS-Rate-List-2011.pdf

For all editorial matters, including articles offered for publication, please contact the Editor, Professor Clyde Chitty, 19 Beaconsfield Road, Bickley, Bromley BR1 2BL, United Kingdom (clydechitty379@btinternet.com).

In the event of problems concerning a subscription, or difficulty in gaining access to the journal articles on the website, please contact the publishers at info@symposium-books.co.uk

 

 

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‘I believe in the afterlife.

It starts tomorrow,

When I go to work’

Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Human Herbs’ at: http://www.myspace.com/coldhandsmusic (recording) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h7tUq0HjIk (live)

 

‘Maximum levels of boredom

Disguised as maximum fun’

Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Stagnant’ at: http://www.myspace.com/coldhandsmusic (recording) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLjxeHvvhJQ (live, at the Belle View pub, Bangor, north Wales)  

 

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The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk

MySpace Profile: http://www.myspace.com/glennrikowski

The Ockress: http://www.theockress.com

Rikowski Point: http://rikowskipoint.blogspot.com

Volumizer: http://glennrikowski.blogspot.com

14th Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues (MERD) Seminar

Glenn Rikowski

14th MARXISM AND EDUCATION: RENEWING DIALOGUES (MERD) SEMINAR

Understanding the Current Crisis in Higher Education
MARXISM AND EDUCATION: RENEWING DIALOGUES XIV

A Day Seminar

10.30 – 4.30
Saturday April 9th 2011
Institute of Education, University of London
20 Bedford Way, WC1
Room 828

Speakers to include:
Patrick Ainley, Martin Allen, Sarah Amsler, Joyce Canaan, Clyde Chitty, Chris Knight

The seminar is free but places are limited.

To reserve a place and receive a numbered ticket, please contact Alpesh Maisuria at: amaisuria@ioe.ac.uk
A waiting list will come into operation when all the places have been allocated.

Please forward this invite to those who may be interested.

Convenors: Tony Green and Alpesh Maisuria

The MERD Seminars were co-founded by Tony Green and Glenn Rikowski in 2001. The First MERD Seminar took place at the University of London, Institute of Education on 22^nd October 2002. For details of the first ten MERD Seminars, see: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=events&sub=MERD

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‘I believe in the afterlife.

It starts tomorrow,

When I go to work’

Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Human Herbs’ at: http://www.myspace.com/coldhandsmusic (recording) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h7tUq0HjIk (live)

Posted here by Glenn Rikowski

The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk

MySpace Profile: http://www.myspace.com/glennrikowski

The Ockress: http://www.theockress.com

Rikowski Point: http://rikowskipoint.blogspot.com