ED4S098 - Responding to Poverty and Disadvantage in Education 01 Sep 2023 - 31 Aug 2029 | Version 1

Associated Module Information

Module Code: ED4S098
Module Title: Responding to Poverty and Disadvantage in Education
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences and Education
Faculty Group: Education, Early Years and Social Work
Faculty Sub Group: Professional Learning
Module Leader:
Module Team:
First Intended Intake: SEP 2023 Final Year of Intake:
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 20 Credit Level: 7
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100459 - education studies
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 1
Valid From 01 Sep 2023
Valid To 31 Aug 2029

Module Aims

This module aims:

1. To enable students to develop a critical understanding of poverty and disadvantage and its impact on education
2. To critically examine theories, literature, practice and measurements
3. To critically evaluate specific contexts in relation to poverty and disadvantage.

Content Summary

Over a third of children and young people live in Wales are living in poverty today. Poverty and disadvantage impacts on the lives of pupils, students, families, staff and communities. This module aims to develop students’ understanding of poverty and disadvantage, and how these impact on learning and development. It feeds in to radical changes in ongoing changes to educational policy in Wales. This module will allow students to critically reflect on their own experiences and how they personally perceive poverty and disadvantage. Students will be asked to critically reflect on the ways in which their educational settings measure learning and development and whether this supports the ongoing issues related to poverty and disadvantage. Finally, this module supports students to be creative in their approach in supporting learners in their chosen educational setting and the barriers they may face along the way, thus enabling them to think about new ways of working in Wales.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 16
Seminar 6
Directed Study 178
Total Hours Selected 200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Demonstrate a critical understanding of poverty and disadvantage on learners
LO2 Critically evaluate the practice and measurements of learning and development with learners who are impacted by poverty and disadvantage
LO3 Critically explore the whole systems approach and how this affects practice.
LO4 Critically examine how to plan, implement and evaluate a change in practice that will benefit learners who are impacted by poverty and disadvantage in educational settings.

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Portfolio 1 0 4000 100 No 50

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4
Portfolio 1

Reading List

Lister, R (2021) Poverty. 2nd ed. Bristol. Polity Press

Fullan, M. and Gallagher, M. J (2022) The Devil is in the Details: System solutions for equity, excellence and student well-being. London: Corwin.

Ferrara, J and Jacobson, R. (eds) (2019) Community Schools. People and places transforming education and communities. London. Rowman and Littlefield.

Lemke, M., & Zhu, L. (2018). Successful futures? New economy business logics, child rights, and Welsh educational reform. Policy Futures in Education, 16(3), 251-276

Lee, J., and Desjardins, R. (2019). Inequality in adult learning and education participation: the effects of social origins and social inequality. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 38(3), 339–359.

Smith, R. and Duckworth, V. (2022) Transformative Teaching and Learning in Further Education
Pedagogies of Hope and Social Justice. Bristol. Polity Press

Taylor, C (2018) The Reliability of Free School Meal Eligibility as a Measure of Socio-Economic Disadvantage: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study in Wales, British Journal of Educational Studies, 66:1, 29-51, DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2017.1330464