FORUM Volume 68 (2026) Issue 1

Print ISSN 1474-7685 - Online ISSN 2047-7171

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Education: to what purpose?

Contents

Editorial, pages 4‑9
Patrick Yarker Free to download

New populism and education: from target to response, pages 10‑19
Charlotte Haines Lyon Free to download

Children’s voices: Who speaks? Who listens? Who cares?, pages 20‑34
Emily Rowe, Jenifer Smith

From the FORUM archive: ‘Alex Bloom, pioneer of radical state education’ by Michael Fielding. Introduced by Patrick Yarker, pages 35‑53
Michael Fielding Free to download

Enabling all children to thrive: primary education in challenging times, pages 54‑63
Gemma Moss

The Education Endowment Foundation Toolkit: a house built on sand? The case of behavioural interventions, pages 64‑80
Rachel France

‘I know why the caged butterfly sighs’: on the narrowing professional autonomy afforded today’s school leaders, pages 81‑93
Richard Cunningham

Against quality: technocratic neoliberal teaching and the new Gradgrindism, pages 94‑104
David Abbott

Seven years on: revisiting my ‘special’ pedagogic creed, pages 105‑114
Lee Calderbank

The 2025 Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture. The comprehensive revolution: completed or defeated?, pages 115‑126
Free to download

Renewing a radical pedagogy of hope as a ‘hope-inclassroom- praxis’: an insight from Germany, pages 127‑143
Anna Myunghee Kim

The yes that needs saying: building a basis for learning without limits, pages 144‑152
Patrick Yarker

Book reviews

The Lacanian Teacher: education, pedagogy and enjoyment, Nick Stock and Nick Peim, pages 153‑155
Katie Spicksley Free to download

Reforming Lessons: why English schools have improved since 2010 and how this was achieved, Nick Gibb and Robert Peal, pages 156‑167
Dorothea Guy Free to download