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