Explain How Poverty, a Major Risk Factor Confronting Students Entering School, Can Impact Bahamian Students in Their Educational Achievement Levels.
Asleine Alce
200441243
Due date: April 5th, 2006
EDU 326: Sociology of Education
Section #:1
Topic: Explain how poverty, a major risk factor confronting students entering school, can impact Bahamian students in their educational achievement levels.
Like other societies, the Bahamian society believes that today’s children are to achieve at the highest level in education. These children should be ‘the crème of the crop’ if the nation must prosper economically now and in the future. With the urge toward excelling in education from society, society has disregard the multiple risk factors that confronts many of children (our future leaders) entering school; especially, poverty which affects million of children each year all around the world, even in our little country, The Bahamas. This paper seeks to show poverty has affected children entering school and how it can impact Bahamian students in their educational achievement levels. Poverty has remained a burning issue for a long time and for the entire world. No country can say they have zero percent poverty rates in the country. Poverty has not been a new concern for the people of the world, a large number of populations are being affected and situation is getting worse. The concern of today is not only poverty but the increasing poverty of children and the effects that poverty is imposing on the children and their educational achievements. Poverty is defined as “the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.” The philosopher Paulo Freire was no stranger to this; he came into contact with hunger and poverty at a very young age because at that the world was in economic crisis. Like Freire many of our Bahamian students are in this same situation, due to a lack of finances. Children development is affected - psychological and emotional; self esteem is lowered, students lack confidence, children are abused, their school
200441243
Due date: April 5th, 2006
EDU 326: Sociology of Education
Section #:1
Topic: Explain how poverty, a major risk factor confronting students entering school, can impact Bahamian students in their educational achievement levels.
Like other societies, the Bahamian society believes that today’s children are to achieve at the highest level in education. These children should be ‘the crème of the crop’ if the nation must prosper economically now and in the future. With the urge toward excelling in education from society, society has disregard the multiple risk factors that confronts many of children (our future leaders) entering school; especially, poverty which affects million of children each year all around the world, even in our little country, The Bahamas. This paper seeks to show poverty has affected children entering school and how it can impact Bahamian students in their educational achievement levels. Poverty has remained a burning issue for a long time and for the entire world. No country can say they have zero percent poverty rates in the country. Poverty has not been a new concern for the people of the world, a large number of populations are being affected and situation is getting worse. The concern of today is not only poverty but the increasing poverty of children and the effects that poverty is imposing on the children and their educational achievements. Poverty is defined as “the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.” The philosopher Paulo Freire was no stranger to this; he came into contact with hunger and poverty at a very young age because at that the world was in economic crisis. Like Freire many of our Bahamian students are in this same situation, due to a lack of finances. Children development is affected - psychological and emotional; self esteem is lowered, students lack confidence, children are abused, their school
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