Teaching and Learning to Unlock Social Mobility for Every Child

Building Learning Futures

Sonia Blandford, Stefan Burkey

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032015392
• eBook ISBN: 9781000840605
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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 apparent. Cultural and social economic disadvantage is evident, as is the need to focus on mutuality in education, whereby all children and young people are valued regardless of their background, challenges or needs. In this context, Teaching and Learning to Unlock Social Mobility for Every Child is the first work to capture and clearly explain practical teaching and learning approaches that can be used in any school. It circles around the creativity and technology of pedagogy, exploring an educational agenda that is genuinely rooted in social mobility for all children.

Written accessibly and full of case studies, this book is intended to guide practitioners and stakeholders at all levels of education from school leaders to researchers, students and teachers. It will help them to impart the skills and capacities which children and young people require to drive their future social mobility and address the challenges they will face on their own terms.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Series Editor’s Foreword
• Foreword
• Foreword
• Preface
• Notes on the authors
• Note to the reader
• Acknowledgements
• 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: Apprenticeships
• 8. The challenge of tech
• 9. A global approach: Reviewing “what works”
• 10. Where do we go now?
• 11. Epilogue
• Index