Material Deprivation and educational achievement

Material Deprivation and educational achievement

1. Intro/definition

   • Mostly an 'at home' factor
   • Material deprivation has a negative impact on education
   • Approx 20% of U.K. children live below the UK poverty line
   • Inability to afford basic resources such as food/heating

2. SIX WAYS

   • Poor quality housing
   • Poor diet/illness
   • No pre school/private tuition
   • Gibson and Astana (1999)
   • Hidden costs
   • Fear of debt
   • Part time jobs

3. Supporting evidence

   • Low income correlated with low cognitive reasoning (Feinstein)
   • Being poor puts you off going to university (Connor et al)

4. Evaluation points

   • More significant than in school factors
   • Deterministic
   • Poor Chinese kids do well
   • Cultural deprivation of white working classes may matter more
   • Even with money equality, M/C would use cultural capital to make education work for them

5. Analysis points

   • The cycle of deprivation
   • Also private schools/material advantage
     • Relative deprivation not absolute poverty