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Efectele sărăciei asupra procesului educaţional
The Effects of Poverty on the Educational System

Author(s): Romina Mihaela Rusu
Subject(s): Applied Sociology
Published by: Galaţi University Press
Keywords: Absolute poverty; relative poverty; standard of living; physical domestic violence; verbal abuse; discrimination;

Summary/Abstract: I have chosen the issue of poverty among the technological high school students in Galaţi because, since the very first moment I stepped into a classroom as a teacher, I have directly noticed the way in which the precarious money situation of certain students affects their school results, in particular, and their future, in general, this fact implying each and every aspect of the latter, starting from the normal affective and cognitive development up to the young adults’ integration into society. Today’s job market demands well-trained graduates able to deal with the productivity process and multiple tasks; that is why, if the poor students are not identified and supported by school, not only their future is in danger, but also the educational system and the society as a whole. By means of this survey, I have had the intention to find out to what extent poverty affects the educational system and then to identify some proper strategies of decreasing the effects of poverty on the system and on education in general. Maybe the issue of poverty should be treated as seriously as possible by engaging all the abilitated institutions in this respect besides school which should support more the family, and above all, the student so as to have a normal evolution, to become a healthy man of great integrity in a society which, unfortunately, needs to be treated as well. We hope that the future ‘doctors’ of our society will be even the children ‘treated’ by us!

  • Issue Year: 12/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 63-89
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Romanian