Apr 14 2024 40 mins 1
We speak to Andy Griffith, author of The Working Classroom, about the needs of working class students in education and how we can support them.
You can get 'The Working Classroom' here
https://amzn.to/3U2GKD1
Written by Matt Bromley and Andy Griffith, The Working Classroom: How to make school work for working-class students offers practical strategies and tools to help secondary schools address the needs of working-class students, including by building cultural capital and designing more engaging learning.
Schools do amazing work to support children from disadvantaged backgrounds. But this book will enable them to do more. Disadvantage comes in many forms, but cultural poverty, where some students have relative knowledge gaps compared with their more affluent peers, can be addressed successfully by schools. The Working Classroom explores how working-class students are disadvantaged by a flawed system and what schools can do to close the gap.
And find out more here
https://theworkingclassroom.co.uk/
