1st Edition

Educational Binds of Poverty The lives of school children

By Ceri Brown Copyright 2015
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

Shortlisted for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed's second Ethnography Awards in partnership with the British Sociological Association! Educational Binds of Poverty tackles the assumptions made by many recent social and educational policy initiatives suggesting that the best way to improve educational prospects of children in poverty is through an increased emphasis upon a culture of... Read more

1. Under Achievement of Children in Poverty: Scoping the policy context  2. The Educational Binds of Poverty  3. Clive: School life following relocation in a single parent family  4. Liza: School life following family break-up and relocation with father  5. Megan: School life as a highly mobile Irish Traveller  6. Codie: School life after community relocation due to unaffordable housing  7. Helen: School life following school change due to bullying  8. Robin: School life with a hearing impediment and relocation due to paternal redundancy  9. Unpicking the Binds: Learning (in) lessons from those that don't

Biography

Ceri Brown is Lecturer in Education at the University of Bath, UK.