Is silence really violence?
Jacob Reynolds, in the latest Education Forum column for Teach Secondary magazine, takes issue with the position adopted by some protest movements that if you’re not saying anything, you’re siding […]
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Entries by Harley Richardson
Book launch: What Should Schools Teach?
What Should Schools Teach? Disciplines, subjects and the pursuit of truth – edited by Education Forum members Alka Sehgal Cuthbert and Alex Standish as part of UCL Press’s Knowledge and […]
Filling the chasm: education after the pandemic
The experience of lockdown learning provides an opportunity to reclaim education from ‘teaching to the test’, argues Shirley Lawes. The closing of schools to the majority of pupils during the […]
What Should Schools Teach?: Disciplines, subjects and the pursuit of truth. (A Review)
Some quotes from Ian Mitchell’s review of the expanded second edition of What Should Schools Teach? (UCL Press, 2021), which was edited by Education Forum members Alka Seghal Cuthbert and […]
Truth and Lies – What Should Schools Teach?
Gareth Sturdy was interviewed recently for David Didau’s and Martin Robinson’s podcast, It’s Your Time You’re Wasting!, about the second edition of What Should Schools Teach? (UCL Press, 2021) which […]
Exploring David Goodhart’s ‘Head, Hand, Heart’
Secondary school teacher Ian Mitchell reflects on the Education Forum’s recent discussion about ‘Head, Hand, Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century’ by David Goodheart. Whilst […]
Covid Britain’s two-tier education system
The teaching establishment is livid that poor children are coming to school expecting an education, writes the Education Forum’s Gareth Sturdy in Spiked. The third national lockdown is starting to […]
What makes a ‘public school’ public?
Education forum organiser Harley Richardson explores the 14th Century roots of one of the most controversial and misunderstood parts of the British education system… ‘Public school’ has to be one […]
English Literature doesn’t need to literally represent race or social experience – it needs to capture pupils’ imaginations
As calls to decolonise the curriculum grow louder, we should consider what might be lost from the study of English literature if we do, writes Alka Sehgal Cuthbert in the […]
“Let’s have a better post-COVID conversation about edtech”
In the Education Forum’s column for Teach Secondary magazine, Alka Sehgal Cuthbert calls for a return to educational basics, and a more nuanced critique of optimistic dreams concerning our gleaming, […]