Moving: A Memoir of Education and Social Mobility

by Andy Hargreaves, Nicola Sturgeon (Foreword)

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
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

224 pages, Hardcover

Published May 7, 2020

About the author

Andy Hargreaves is Research Professor at Boston College, Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University, Professor II at the University of Stavanger, and Honorary Professor at Swansea University. He is Past President of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Adviser in Education to the First Minister of Scotland and from 2016-2018 to the Premier of Ontario. Andy is founder of the Atlantic Rim Collaboratory (ARC): a group of 9 nations committed to broadly defined excellence, equity, wellbeing, inclusion, democracy and human rights.
Andy has consulted with the OECD, the World Bank, governments, universities and professional associations worldwide. He has given keynote addresses in 50 countries, 47 US states and all Australian states and Canadian provinces. Andy’s more than 30 books have attracted multiple Outstanding Writing Awards. Andy is ranked in the top 20 scholars with most influence on US education policy debate. In 2015, Boston College gave him its Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the Education University of Hong Kong and the University of Uppsala in Sweden.

Reviews

[Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this book but I have to be honest and admit that I grew up just round the corner from the author and that members of my family are mentioned in it in passing! I read it initially because I was interested in his reminiscences of our hometown and our old schools but I found his account of social mobility, both his own and generally, fascinating and so many of his experiences and feelings in particular circumstances rang true with my own.