FORUM Volume 68 (2026) Issue 2

Print ISSN 1474-7685 - Online ISSN 2047-7171

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The futures of teaching

Contents

Editorial: The futures of teaching, pages 4‑6
Patrick Yarker Free to download

Introduction: The futures of teaching, pages 7‑12
Viv Ellis, Marie Brennan Free to download

Gaslighting a profession: on moral purpose, teacher knowledge and the role of trust, pages 13‑22
Nicole Mockler Free to download

Brains, birds and keys: picturing the future of teaching, pages 23‑25
Jamie Lawes

School space and the future of teaching, pages 26‑36
Benjamin Cleveland

Colouring inside, around and outside the lines: creating hopeful conditions for policy engagement and enactment, pages 37‑46
Charlotte Wright

The future of teaching (or what are we going to do with all those computational machines?), pages 47‑57
Greg Thompson Free to download

A sustainable future for school leadership?, pages 58‑63
Kenny Frederick

Imagineering a future-oriented teaching workforce, pages 64‑70
Marie Brennan

Departmental mythologies: AI, policy and the work of teaching, pages 71‑74
K. David

Fighting futile futures, pages 75‑82
Tom Are Trippestad

A playful profession: Teachers and pupils learning together, pages 83‑103
The Playful Teacher Collective

The persistent myth of ability is a barrier to educational change: a critical response to Zack Polanski’s NEU speech, pages 104‑111
Rachel Marks Free to download

Book reviews

Imagining a world where children and young people clamour to get to school, pages 112‑118
Derek Gillard Free to download
(Re?) Designing Education, Ethically and Psychologically: a cause for care, Simon Gibbs

‘We are here because you were there’, pages 119‑122
Patrick Yarker
Education and Race from Empire to Multiracial Britain, 2nd edition, Sally Tomlinson

A plea for a more empathetic, imaginative and inclusive educational system, pages 123‑128
Derek Gillard Free to download
What Are We Doing to Our Children? A teacher’s journey through our British education system, Karen Wilson

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