POVERTY AND EDUCATION

Does Poverty Affects Children's Right to Education

Does Poverty Affects Children's Right to Education

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to enlighten and explore the impact of poverty on children's right to education. There are diverse and contrasting arguments regarding this issue. However, the most of the sources agree that the poverty does have a significant impact on the children's right to education. There are several factors of poverty affecting individual perspective and family dimensions. These factors have a significant impact on the level of education attained by the students. Poverty is not a single thing, nor a simple concept. On a world scale, distinctly different situations are embraced in the term. There are five hundred million children living in poverty in developing countries, most in rural settings.

The quality of the schooling that reaches them is debated, for example, argues that the formal pedagogy conventional in their schools is profoundly inappropriate. Poverty in agricultural villages is different from poverty in the explosively growing cities that now dominate the politics of the developing world. It was in the context of migration into such urban settings. There are different researchers that formulated the idea of a "culture of poverty," which has had a profound effect on compensatory education in wealthy countries.

There is certainly a need to rethink the underlying logic of compensatory programs aimed at poor families, which have not changed in their basic design and political justification, either in the United Kingdom or in other countries, since the 1960s. Meanwhile, child poverty has grown dramatically, and the difficulties faced by some parts of the school system have reached crisis proportions. Such rethinking can draw on two assets that were not available in the 1960s. The first is the accumulated practical experience of teachers and parents with compensatory programs. Compensatory programs cannot be reinvented in isolation; the rethinking leads us inevitably to larger questions about education.

The Impact of Poverty Dimensions on Education Level of Students

According to different sources, there are diverse ways through which children and teenagers deal with gender affect their schooling. It should not be forgotten that it applies to children and teenagers in poverty; for both girls and boys, gender relations shape their difficult relationships with their schools. Schooling designed specifically for the poor dates back to the charity schools of the eighteenth century, and to the ragged schools of the nineteenth century that were established to tame the children of the perishing and dangerous classes. Modern compensatory programs date from the 1960s and have a specific history (Hoeven, Shorrocks, 2003, 89). A series of social movements expended enormous energy to desegregate schools, establish comprehensive secondary systems, and open universities to excluded groups. As a result of this pressure, the expanding educational systems of the mid-century generally became more accessible.

Documenting this informal segregation within formally un-segregated institutions was the main preoccupation of educational sociology in the 1950s and 1960s. A mass of evidence built up, ranging from national surveys like the 1966 in the United Kingdom like Ford's (1969) Social ...