From Difference to Disadvantage
Author | : Áine Cregan |
Publisher | : Combat Poverty Agency |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Children |
ISBN | : 190548545X |
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Author | : Áine Cregan |
Publisher | : Combat Poverty Agency |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Children |
ISBN | : 190548545X |
Author | : Jonathan Wolff |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2007-04-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199278261 |
The authors combine a philosophical analysis of the idea of disadvantage with proposals for moving society in the discretion of equality, by 'declustering disadvantage'. The book will help political philosophers, social policy theorists, and practitioners involved in the design and delivery of actual social policy.
Author | : Jonathan Wolff |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2007-04-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0191535230 |
What does it mean to be disadvantaged? Is it possible to compare different disadvantages? What should governments do to move their societies in the direction of equality, where equality is to be understood both in distributional and social terms? Linking rigorous analytical philosophical theory with broad empirical studies, including interviews conducted for the purpose of this book, Wolff and de-Shalit show how taking theory and practice together is essential if the theory is to be rich enough to be applied to the real world, and policy systematic enough to have purpose and justification. The book is in three parts. Part 1 presents a pluralist analysis of disadvantage, modifying the capability theory of Sen and Nussbaum to produce the 'genuine opportunity for secure functioning' view. This emphasises risk and insecurity as a central component of disadvantage. Part 2 shows how to identify the least advantaged in society even on a pluralist view. The authors suggest that disadvantage 'clusters' in the sense that some people are disadvantaged in several different respects. Thus identifying the least advantaged is not as problematic as it appears to be. Conversely, a society which has 'declustered disadvantaged' - in the sense that no group lacks secure functioning on a range of functionings - has made considerable progress in the direction of equality. Part 3 explores how to decluster disadvantage, by paying special attention to 'corrosive disadvantages' - those disadvantages which cause further disadvantages - and 'fertile functionings' - those which are likely to secure other functionings. In sum this books presents a refreshing new analysis of disadvantage, and puts forward proposals to help governments improve the lives of the least advantaged in their societies, thereby moving in the direction of equality.
Author | : Tamara Bibby |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2017-02-21 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1137521562 |
This book explores a range of challenges teachers face in dealing with situations of disadvantage, and explores different ways of thinking about these situations. Starting with a variety of incidents written by teachers in schools in disadvantaged settings, the book provides a range of ways of thinking about these - some more psychological, others more sociological - and chapters develop conversations between teachers and academics. These 'conversations' will help teachers reflect more deeply on the contexts in which they work, on what disadvantage means, and how disadvantage manifests in practice. It will also help teachers reflect upon the nature of their work; what it means to be a good and effective teacher; and the particular skills, approaches, relationships and competencies that may need to be developed in differing settings of educational disadvantage. The book explores the tensions between different ways of thinking about education and disadvantage; it will make compelling reading for students and teachers of education, education policy makers, and practising schoolteachers.
Author | : Doria Pilling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
This report looks at the lives, expectations and perceptions of a group of young people who, in a variety of ways, could be regarded as having had a disadvantaged start in life. In particular, it assesses the persistence or amelioration of disadvantage as the children have grown up.
Author | : Mary S. McDill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Segregation in education |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dr Theo Cox |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 113570709X |
Exclusion in schools is always topical Highly respected international contributors
Author | : R. Darrell Bock |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780898596861 |
Based upon a large body of factual information,a critical view of the cognitive skills and potentials of young people in the United States in the 1980s. The data is analyzed using the most current statistical techniques and discussed from a broad psychological, sociological and educational perspective. The respondents to the survey were obtained by direct visits to households, not through convenient institutional sources, therefore allowing for a representative national sample. As such, the study typifies a complete cross-section of America's youth both in and out of school. The young people included in the sample were administered the ASVAB, a test battery which consists of ten separately timed and scored tests which assess a wide range of knowledge and skills from English-language reading and vocabulary, through secondary school mathematics understanding and quantitative competance, to quite specific vocational knowledge in technical fields. Differences in the profiles across the ten tests provide some of the more interesting results of the analysis.
Author | : Ajit K. Mohanty |
Publisher | : Concept Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9788170228059 |
Papers presented at the Seminar on "Psychology of Poverty and Disadvantage", 18-20 December, 1997, organized by Centre of Advanced Study in Psychology, at Bhubaneswar.