The impact of expeditionary learning schools in inner city areas
By Jon Clarke, 2021
Fellow’s Profile
Fellow’s Profile
The impact of expeditionary learning schools in inner-city areas
Introducing expeditionary learning techniques to inner city schools to tackle under-achievement
2016
West Midlands
I am Shadow Headteacher at Walsall Academy. My Fellowship topic was The Impact of Expeditionary Learning Schools in Inner City Areas in the USA. My areas of work are within education and the use of methodologies to close the gap with disadvantaged children.
As part of my Fellowship, I travelled to the USA and spent time in New York City and Detroit. On my return I devised an approach to learning based on the principles of expeditionary learning as an intervention course with predominantly white working-class boys. Due to the initial success of the course, this has widened in its approach to more young people in several schools. The approach has been subject to several publications and is now the basis of a PhD research project. It is not about learning on an expedition, but the learning journey and whole design and student agency. There is an aspect of learning outside the classroom involved in the approach.
I have always loved to travel and I have spent many years leading expeditions of young people. The Fellowship meant that I could travel to learn and make an impact upon my return – just as I expect the expeditions that I lead to have an impact on my students.
Deputy headteacher Jon Clarke (CF 2016) has been featured in an online article in The Times on 31 December. The piece explores Jon’s work to support disadvantaged children by engaging them in outdoor expeditions.
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Deputy headteacher Jon Clarke (CF 2016) has been featured in an online article in The Times on 31 December. The piece explores Jon’s work to support disadvantaged children by engaging them in outdoor expeditions.
By Jon Clarke, 2021
By Jon Clarke, 2019
By Jon Clarke, 2018
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.