Event overview
CISJ is delighted to host Melissa Benn's seminar Inside the 'New Educational Establishment'
Based on her recent introductory chapter in Teacher Education in Crisis: The State, the Market and the Universities in England (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), Melissa Benn will use this seminar to look at some of the key players now running education - The New Educational Establishment - and examine some of their core ideas (and silences) around learning, curriculum, teaching and poverty.
How much of a change does this Establishment and its values represent compared to those running education in the 60s and 70s? How much of a continuity is there between today’s influential players and the Thatcherite and New Labour period? As the Conservatives appear to implode, has that weakened the system and personnel that influential figures like Gove sought to build and enable?
She will also look at how much this establishment might influence an incoming government, including a Labour one.
Melissa Benn is a writer and campaigner. She has written three books on education, including School Wars: The Battle for Britain’s Education (Verso, 2011) and Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Service (Verso 2018).
A former chair of Comprehensive Future, a founder member of Private School Policy Forum, Melissa was the 2023 inaugural lecturer in the New Visions series of annual lectures honouring Fred Jarvis. Details here https://newvisionsforeducation.org.uk/fred-jarvis-memorial-lecture-2023
This is a hybrid event. A zoom Link will be send to those registered attendees who cannot attend it in person.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 Mar 2024 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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