Moving: A Memoir of Education and Social Mobility
by: Andy Hargreaves (Author),Nicola Sturgeon(Foreword)
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Edition: Illustrated
Publication Date: 2020/5/7
Language: English
Print Length: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1951075013
ISBN-13: 9781951075019
Book Description
Social mobility--the chance, through education, to achieve greater success compared to one's parents--is one of the most compelling issues of our time. In Moving, renowned professor, government adviser, and global change agent Andy Hargreaves shares candid, poignant and occasionally hilarious personal experiences of social mobility. Deeply revealing, emotionally direct, and intellectually insightful, the book begins in 1950s Northwest England and takes readers up to Hargreaves's university education in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Hargreaves openly shares how class movement has affected him throughout life, links his narrative to classic and contemporary research and realities, and calls on society to reverse the increasing levels of social immobility and inequity worldwide.Use this resource to inspire your work in increasing learning for every student:Learn, through the author's research and firsthand account, how issues surrounding mobility, equity, and education in the 20th century are still reflected in 21st-century life.Understand the obstacles of socially mobile students as they negotiate schoolwork, poverty, cultural collisions, and personal hardship.Witness how Hargreaves's experiences of testing, selection, ADHD, inspiring and uninspiring teaching, whole-child inclusion, and elitist exclusion are still alive and well in education today.Study three alternative scenarios for the future of social mobility that highlight the best ways to address both mobility and equity and to deal with the strains experienced by students who succeed in becoming mobile.Contents: Preface and Acknowledgments
Table of contents
About the Author Chapter 1: Move On Up Chapter 2: No One Likes Us; We Don't Care Chapter 3: How the Light Gets Chapter 4: End of Eden Chapter 5: Worlds Apart Chapter 6: Higher Loves Chapter 7: The Full Monty Chapter 8: The Bigger Picture Index Endnotes
About the Author
Social mobility--the chance, through education, to achieve greater success compared to one's parents--is one of the most compelling issues of our time. In Moving, renowned professor, government adviser, and global change agent Andy Hargreaves shares candid, poignant and occasionally hilarious personal experiences of social mobility. Deeply revealing, emotionally direct, and intellectually insightful, the book begins in 1950s Northwest England and takes readers up to Hargreaves's university education in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Hargreaves openly shares how class movement has affected him throughout life, links his narrative to classic and contemporary research and realities, and calls on society to reverse the increasing levels of social immobility and inequity worldwide.Use this resource to inspire your work in increasing learning for every student:Learn, through the author's research and firsthand account, how issues surrounding mobility, equity, and education in the 20th century are still reflected in 21st-century life.Understand the obstacles of socially mobile students as they negotiate schoolwork, poverty, cultural collisions, and personal hardship.Witness how Hargreaves's experiences of testing, selection, ADHD, inspiring and uninspiring teaching, whole-child inclusion, and elitist exclusion are still alive and well in education today.Study three alternative scenarios for the future of social mobility that highlight the best ways to address both mobility and equity and to deal with the strains experienced by students who succeed in becoming mobile.Contents: Preface and Acknowledgments
Table of contents
About the Author Chapter 1: Move On Up Chapter 2: No One Likes Us; We Don't Care Chapter 3: How the Light Gets Chapter 4: End of Eden Chapter 5: Worlds Apart Chapter 6: Higher Loves Chapter 7: The Full Monty Chapter 8: The Bigger Picture Index Endnotes
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