Material Deprivation Is The Most Important Barrier To Educational Attainment
Material deprivation is a lack of money, which leads to disadvantages,
such as unhealthy diet and a lack of materials such as computer and
textbooks. J.W.B Douglas examined education of 5,362 British children
and grouped the children in terms of their ability, which was measured
by IQ tests. He then divided them into four social class groupings and
found significant variations between students of a similar ability but
who were from different social backgrounds.
Douglas believed that underachievement in education was related to a
number of factors. These were the students health, the size of the
students family and the quality of the school they attended. With
health, working class children tend to have a poor diet, which leads
to ill health. This in turn, leads to poor attendance and therefore
children cannot catch up on work missed and so underachieve in exams.
The size of the student's family is linked to underachievement because
there is less money to spend on material objects for example textbooks
and computers, and to an extent, personal tutors. There is also less
room at home to do homework, as they may have to share a room with
siblings, and so there is no-where quiet they can go to do homework.
The quality of school also matters, as working class children tend to
live in working class areas, and cannot afford to go to a good school
so attend a working class school. This is a poorer quality of school
than the middle class would attend, and so they underachieve in exams.
Douglas also believed that the degree of parent's interest in their
children's ed...
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and they possess the key to unlock the messages transmitted in the
classroom. This means that students from upper classes have a higher
success rate than the middle class students.
Bourdieu believes that a major role of the education system is
eliminating the working class from higher levels of education. This is
accomplished by examination failure and self-elimination. As they have
a relative lack of dominant culture, working class pupils are much
more likely to fail examinations which stops them from going into
higher education.
This leads me to believe that although material deprivation is an
explanation of low educational attainment, it is not the main barrier
to working class achieving at school. It is one of several factors
which all add up to working class underachieving at school.
parents may not have an education or language skills to help their child with their homework
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