1st Edition

Teaching and Learning to Unlock Social Mobility for Every Child Building Learning Futures

By Sonia Blandford, Stefan Burkey Copyright 2023
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

Teaching and Learning to Unlock Social Mobility for Every Child is a topical and insightful text that guides readers through evidence-based practice that will improve outcomes for all involved in education, increasing social mobility and inclusion in every sense. In the past 30 years, how children and young people learn has changed considerably as challenges of social mobility become more... Read more

1. Can teaching and learning really improve social mobility?  2. The Foundations of the Building  3. The First Educators: Mutuality, Chance or Choice?  4. Overturning "Business As Usual"  5. Teaching - "It Is Difficult to Predict, Especially the Future"  6. Resetting the Compass in early years settings and primary schools  7. Real world experience  8. The challenge of tech  9. A global approach – Reviewing ‘What Works’  10. Where do we go now?  11. Epilogue

Biography

Sonia Blandford is a Professor of Social Mobility at Plymouth Marjon University. She has spent over 40 years in national and international education as a teacher, researcher, educator, school leader and author.

Stefan Burkey is a freelance education researcher, writer, evaluator, and project developer. His major clients include DfE, Ofqual, Achievement for All, EDT, Teach First, and the Children’s Commissioner.