Material deprivation

• Material deprivation is the direct measure of poverty, deprived from the lack of items and activities deemed to bee necessary for an acceptable standard of living
• what is classed as material deprivation

  • travel
  • healthyfood
  • school equipment
  • place to study
  • housing
  • money to pay rent
• facts about material deprivation

  1. barely 1/3 of pupils eligible for free school
  2. money problems in the house/family are a significant problem
• Housing-

  poor housing can affect pupils achievements both directly and indirectly for example over crowding
• Development can be impaired through lack of space, play and exploration
• diet and health - Marilyn Howard found young people from poor housing have lower intake of energy.poor nutrition affects health may result in more absences due to illness
• financial support -children from poor households have to do without equipment and miss out on experiences. David bull (1980) refers to this as the “cost of schooling“
• Emily tanner (2003) found that the cost of items such as transport, uniforms, books and computers places a heavy burden on poor families
• fear of dept - going to universities usually involves getting into dept to cover cost of tuition fees, books ,living essentials

  Claire callender and john jackson (2005) found that working class students are more dept averse