What helps children facing poverty to achieve academic successes
Several studies have highlighted the measures that parents, educators, and school administrators think should be taken in order to help children facing poverty to achieve academic success. But a new study concentrated on the students themselves in order to find out which are the factors that they assume contributed to their progress.
A new study published in the Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development looked at what children, facing adversity, perceive as having contributed to their academic success.
The research looked at high-achieving, low-income 12- and 13-year-old students and asked the to report on the factors that they considered as being essential for their academic success. And according to their responds, four elements were considered to have contributed to their progress: reciprocal peer relationships, teachers who care, family and community assets, and multiple sources of motivation.
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“In the national discussion about how to promote academic success among poor students at risk of school failure, one voice has gone unheard: the students them,selves,” said Dr. Joseph Williams, lead author.”While many studies have collected the opinions of parents, educators, and school administrators, few have explored students’ perceptions of what they need to succeed academically despite exposure to adversity. This is a serious oversight.”
Williams hopes that his study could be used in order to design programmes and services which offer the support that children feel they need in order to escape poverty and continue their studies.
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