Learning the price of poverty across the UK
Author
Ivinson, Gabrielle
Thompson, Ian
Beckett, Lori
Egan, David
Leitch, Ruth
McKinney, Stephen
Date
2017-10-25Acceptance date
2017
Type
Article
Publisher
SAGE
ISSN
1478-2103
Metadata
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In 2016, the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Commission on Poverty and Policy Advocacy brought together several academics from across the four jurisdictions of the UK already engaged in work on poverty, education and schooling. The aim of this BERA Commission was to build a network of research-active practitioners across the UK and, internationally, to engage in knowledge building about poverty and multiple factors of deprivation as these find expression in education and schooling. The Commission also aimed to facilitate counter discourses to be voiced and articulated in contrast to the dominant pathologising discourses of poor people and their education. The Commission therefore addressed the question: what can research tell us about the ways that different devolved policy contexts impact on the learning and well-being of young people living in poverty? This article describes the methodology used by the Commission to bring together researchers, policymakers, practitioners and children and young people to learn about the price of poverty in education and to reflect on the implications for policy. In so doing, the article addresses some challenges, opportunities and outcomes in terms of knowledge production, as well as implications for critical scholarship, with a focus on poverty and education.
Journal/conference proceeding
Policy Futures in Education;
Citation
Ivinson, G., Thompson, I., Beckett, L., Egan, D., Leitch, R. and McKinney, S. (2018) 'Learning the price of poverty across the UK', Policy Futures in Education, 16(2), pp.130-143. DOI: 10.1177/1478210317736224.
Description
Article published in Policy Futures in Education on 25 October 2017, available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1478210317736224.
Sponsorship
Cardiff Metropolitan University (Grant ID: Cardiff Metropolian (Internal))
Collections
- Education Research [237]
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