Educational relationships and their impact on poverty
| Autor: | Kathleen Bullock, Felicity Wikeley, Yolande Muschamp, Tess Ridge |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Inclusive Education. 13:377-393 |
| ISSN: | 1464-5173 1360-3116 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13603110802141045 |
| Popis: | This paper explores the premise that children in poverty are disadvantaged in their potential to learn by the extent and quality of their social networks and educational relationships. The research examines the quality and sustainability of educational relationships between children and adults in out‐of‐school activities. We build a theoretical argument to suggest that children with a greater number of successful, formal and informal educational relationships stand a better chance of success in terms of on‐going learning and rewarding employment. The study probes how children act as agents in developing and maintaining educational relationships with adults and the constraints on the use of their own agency in negotiating more formal educational settings. It explores educational relationships out of school and compares and contrasts the educational relationships experienced by children in poverty with a matched sample of those in more affluent circumstances. In doing so, it illuminates the nature and scope... |
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