Heloise Tudor Outline some of the ways in which material deprivation may affect educational achievement. (12 marks) Material deprivation is when people have insufficient physical resources to sustain life‚ and is common among lower-class households. It affects educational achievement in many ways‚ including a non-nutritious diet and inadequate housing. Howard (2001) claimed that poor nutrition leads to low achievement at school because poorer homes have a lower intake of vitamins‚ minerals
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Outline some of the ways in which material deprivation may affect educational achievements. (12 marks) Material deprivation has a significant impact on individual’s educational achievements as a whole. The type of housing that the pupils are living in can have both a direct and indirect effect an individual’s achievement within their education; an example of a direct impact on education is their housing arrangements. Individuals housing circumstances can effect ones education alone. This is because
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Material deprivation is the lacking of material goods; which is normally due to a lack of money e.g. poor housing and lack of school equipment. This is normally suffered by the working class as they may bring in little or no income. Therefore‚ Material deprivation can affect the achievement of working class pupils because they cannot afford the necessities needed to do well in education. One way in which material deprivation may lead to underachievement for working class is because of poor quality
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TOPIC 1 ESSAY c) Material deprivation can effect educational achievement by the following ways: Poor housing is a factor because if students are living in a bad conditions they won’t do as well in school‚ if a house is overcrowded then the student will find it harder to do private study and homework. If a Child is not settled in a house and constantly has to move location this means that they will be moving school frequently and never be settled‚ disrupts their education. If a child lives
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Outline some of the ways in which Marketisation and Selection Policies may produce social class differences in educational achievement. (12 Marks) Marketisation is when schools become more business-like. This could be competition; schools strive to get to the top of league tables‚ they want the best grades and results‚ and they try to provide the best. Marketisation introduced funding formula‚ exam league tables and competition between schools. Due to the Marketisation of schools and the education
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Material deprivation (by which we mean the extent to which people have or are denied certain material things in life - which includes things like your level of income‚ standard of housing‚ access to consumer goods and so forth) is frequently cited as one of - if not the - main cause of differential educational achievement. Although the theory has gone in and out of political (and sociological) fashion over the past 50 or so years‚ most of the research in this area does suggest that there is some
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of different factors that can affect a child’s educational achievement; their social background has a strong influence on the achievement and success that they may get during their lives. For example a child from a middle class background is on average more likely to attain a higher success than one from a working class background‚ and the class gap between the achievement levels gets wider and wider the older that the children get. A good way of explaining why some children have a higher success
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Professor Muller English 101 March 1‚ 2013 Educational Achievement and Upward Mobility In many cities throughout the United States‚ people live in a state of poverty‚ lacking the basic necessities of food‚ clothing‚ and shelter needed to survive. Governments have tried numerous policies to life people out of poverty‚ from financial aid to affirmative action programs. Yet‚ Government aids are not enough to guarantee educational achievement. Educational achievement is the single largest influence on an
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Explain what is meant by cultural deprivation and how it may affect achievement? Cultural deprivation can be explained by a whole branch of sources for example Basil Bernstein’s speech code is one; the speech code consists of the elaborated and restricted code. The elaborated code is the middle class’ respected code whereas the restricted code is the working class’ simple non educated way of speech. These linguistic codes were said to be correlated with class differences in family organization‚ power
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Outline some of the ways in which marketisation and selection policies may produce class differences in education Some sociologists argue that recent policies encouraging marketization and selection have increased class differences in educational achievement. The 1988 Education Reform Act began marketisation of education by encouraging competition between schools and choice for parents. Marketisation includes funding formulas‚ exam league tables‚ cream-skimming and silt shifting. Schools want to
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