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In association with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
With up to 30,000 young people leaving schools in the UK each year with few if any qualifications, despite the best efforts of many schools to address their needs, have we got the design and organisation of our secondary schools right? Is the Government’s ambitious Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme in danger of re-housing old problems in new buildings?
Following his investigation for Channel 4’s Dispatches programme, ‘The Children Left Behind’, former head teacher James Wetz asks: how can we organise our secondary schools so that all young people are encouraged to learn and gain a stake in society?
With experience of running large urban secondary schools himself, James Wetz is convinced that size is a crucial factor. In Urban Village Schools he draws on the observations of marginalised young people to show how pupils, especially the vulnerable and those with challenging backgrounds, fail to manage the complex settings in large inner city schools. Then, using a theoretical framework derived from attachment theory, examples from educational practice in therapeutic settings, and international models that emphasise the human scale, he proposes a new approach: the urban village school.
Speakers: James Wetz Visiting Fellow, University of Bristol Graduate School of Education; Dr Heather Geddes Educational Psychotherapist; Rachel Wolf, Director, New Schools Network.
Chair: Matthew Taylor, chief executive, RSA
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