FORUM Volume 68 (2026) Issue 3
Print ISSN 1474-7685 - Online ISSN 2047-7171
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The moment of 1976
Contents
Editorial: The moment of 1976, pages 4‑11
Patrick Yarker Free to download
Reimagining education for a democratic future: comprehensive education and the unfinished promise of 1976, pages 12‑20
Daryn Egan-Simon
Caroline Benn and comprehensive education: politics, policy and practice in the 1970s, pages 21‑38
Jane Martin Free to download
Half a century of learning: 1976-2026. A personal history of educational resistance and alternatives, pages 39‑52
Eddie Playfair
Michael Armstrong and Lesley King, Schools within schools: the Countesthorpe experience. Introduced by Patrick Yarker, pages 53‑64
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Developing a participatory relational environment in the face of neoliberal logic: a case for hope, pages 65‑77
Lisa Jane Tyler
Better at aspiring than acting? Seven errors of progressive education and how to address them Part One, pages 78‑90
Joe Hallgarten, Sarah Seleznyov Free to download
Interpreting ordinary suffering: pupils’ lived experiences of academically selective education, pages 91‑100
Francesca McCarthy
Generation Z lost to NEET: calling time on a school system that fails too many young people, pages 101‑111
Doug Martin Free to download
Flawed education and the origins of a school-to-prison pipeline, pages 112‑122
Simon Gibbs
Departmental mythologies: pastoral bureaucracy, pages 123‑126
K. David
We need to talk about moderation: practitioner voices on the Key Stage 2 writing assessment, pages 127‑134
Rebecca Clarkson
Hegel’s Lord-Bondsman: recognition, resistance and reorientation in England’s education system, pages 135‑150
David Lewis Thomas
Educating and retaining new teachers: lessons and warnings from Scotland, pages 151‑162
Fiorella Lazarte
‘A kind of emissary’: Lawrence Stenhouse at 100, pages 163‑174
Patrick Yarker
Book review
After the Review: reimagining curriculum and assessment, edited by Jane Coles with Dave Barter, John Bolt, Ian Duckett and James Whiting, pages 175‑181
Patrick Yarker Free to download