How Poverty Affects the Didactic Triangle: Educational Outcomes and Pedagogical Relationships
Overview
This paper examines the relationship between poverty and the three constituents of the didactic triangle—teacher, learner, and content. It argues that poverty negatively affects educational outcomes by impairing cognitive development and reducing access to basic resources necessary for effective learning. The paper analyzes how poverty and precarity create barriers within the education system in Scotland and globally.
What this essay covers
- Introduction: Defining poverty through access to basic needs and its relationship to the didactic triangle
- Poverty and Precarity: Distinction between poverty as denial of choices and precarity as economic uncertainty; global statistics on poverty reduction
- The Didactic Triangle: Overview of the three-part education model and how poverty affects each component; discussion of education's role in breaking intergenerational disadvantage
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How Poverty Affects the Didactic Triangle
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University of Strathclyde
Educational Studies: Professional Values
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How Poverty Affects the Didactic Triangle
Introduction
Poverty can never be defined adequately in a particular way owing to the diverse range of definitions breadth of its range of definitions. This fact notwithstanding, poverty can be explored through various lenses, such as primary needs regarding the attainment of these needs. If the perspective is adopted, poverty can be considered as an individual's inability to access basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing, and education (Wagle, 2018). The didactic triangle has three main constituents: the teacher, the learner, and the content. All these perspectives are important in attaining proper pedagogical relationships within the education system. Based on the approach of defining poverty adopted above, it is possible to see a strong relationship based on how it affects the three aspects of the didactic triangle (Schoenfeld, 2012). Manifestations of poverty include, but are not limited to, malnutrition, hunger, social discrimination, exclusion, and lack of participation in making decisions. Family background is a crucial predictor of academic success and credible evidence has it that poverty directly and negatively affects a child's educational outcome (Naven et al., 2019). For example, children bred in poverty will likely exhibit impaired working memory, short attention spans, and lack of creativity which makes school harder for them.
Poverty and Precarity
According to the United Nations, poverty is described as the denial of choices and opportunities, and is a direct violation of human dignity.