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