To the oppressed, and to those who suffer with them and fight at their side (Paulo Freire, 1970)

Anti-poverty Professional Learning for the Teaching Profession

Professional Learning and Research Resources

ACEs and poverty

https://www.gcph.co.uk/children_and_families/adverse_childhood_experiences_aces

How COVID-19 crisis measures reveal the conflation between poverty and adversity (2020), Treanor, M. C. https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/publications/how-covid-19-crisis-measures-reveal-the-conflation-between-povert

ACEs – repackaging old problems in shiny new (Emperor’s) clothes: Professor Morag Treanor

Benefits overview – Scotland

Classroom/school activities

(see Module Resource Packs and also ‘Human Rights Education, below)

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/secondary-education-resources/lesson-plan-ideas/lesson-8-what-are-human-rights

https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/framing-toolkit-talking-about-poverty

Southern Poverty Law Centre (U.S.): https://www.learningforjustice.org/frameworks/critical-practices

On being heard: https://www.rethinkingpoverty.org.uk/new-democratic-models/to-rethink-scotland-our-systems-need-to-let-people-in/

https://cypcs.org.uk/get-help/teachers/golden-rules/

Poverty-free future, zinemaking workshop/https://doleanimators.org.uk

https://connect.scot/membership/success-stories/grandparents-and-bingo-connection

https://connect.scot/membership/success-stories/charity-shop

Digital rights: https://young.scot/campaigns/national/5rights

Poem: http://povertytruthcommission.blogspot.com/

Film analysis: Benign Inequality: Frames of Poverty and Social Class

Inequality in Children’s Movies (2017), Streib,J., Ayala, M. &  Wixted, C. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10875549.2015

Doing community-led research: https://www.communityfoodandhealth.org.uk/advice-resources/communityled-research/

Cost of the School Day initiatives

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/practice-exemplars/cost-of-the-school-day/

https://cpag.org.uk/cost-of-the-school-day

https://cpag.org.uk/scotland/CoSD/evaluation

Dundee

https://cpag.org.uk/scotland/cost-school-day/cost-school-day-dundee

Edinburgh One in Five

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/practice-exemplars/the-1-in-5-raising-awareness-of-child-poverty-project-in-edinburgh/

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Please see Professional Learning Programme pages here, Module Resource Packs, here, HRBA pages here.

Human Rights Education generally is also a separate heading in this section.

Educational research

(click on link for full reference details)

Using research to promote equity within education systems: Possibilities and barriers (2019), Chapman, C. and Ainscow, M.

https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3544

 

https://www.education.gov.scot/improvement/research/poverty-and-schooling-where-mindset-meets-practice-2015/

Reclaiming education: ‘fake news’, research and social justice: editorial, special edition, The Curriculum Journal (2018), Hayward, L., Higgins, S., Livingston, K. & Wyse, D. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09585176.2018.1436252

A curricular lens on equity and inclusion: using Bernstein to articulate ‘supercomplexity’ (2017),  Higgins, S., Hayward, L., Livingston, K. & Wyse, D. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09585176.2017.1341106

Finnish education nutshell: https://www.oph.fi/en/statistics-and-publications/publications/finnish-education-nutshell

On aspiration

https://connect.scot/teacher-professional/resources/dispelling-myth-parental-poverty-aspiration-morag-treanor

On early years

“Seen but Not Heard.” Practitioners Work with Poverty and the Organising out of Disadvantaged Children’s Voices and Participation in the Early Years (2017), Simpson, D., Loughran, S., Lumsden, E., Mazzocco, P., McDowall Clark, R. & Winterbottom, C. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1350293X.2017.1288014?journalCode=recr20

On equity positions: school leaders

Positional matters: school leaders engaging with national equity agendas (2018), Molla, T. & Gale, T. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02680939.2018.1556811

On Human Rights education (see separate section below)

On narrative/political literacy

Narrating Activist Education Teachers Stories of Affecting Social and Political Change (2014), Niblett, B. https://www.academia.edu/9308344/Narrating_Activist_Education_Teachers

On narrative/professional development

The impact of professional development on poverty, schooling, and literacy practices: Teacher narratives and reformation of mindset (2017), Ciuffetelli Parker, D. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1133981

On place

Drawing on Children’s “Sense of Place” –The Starting Point for Teaching Social

Studies and Geography(2007),  Hutchison, D. https://issuu.com/gfbertini/docs/drawing_on_children_s_sense_of_place_-_the_starting

On political literacy (and see Narrative/political literacy)

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/learning-resources/you-decide-a-political-literacy-resource/

https://thelearningexchange.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Facilitating-Activist-Education-WW-66.pdf

Activist dispositions for social justice in advantaged and disadvantaged contexts of

Schooling (2019): Mills, C., Gale,T.,  Parker, S.,  Smith, C. & Cross, R. :https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2019.1582322

Engagement, passivity and detachment: 16-year-old students’ conceptions of politics and the relationship between people and politics (2017), Mathe, N.E.H.   https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/berj.3313

On political literacy/critical thinking/literacy on poverty

Teaching as an act  of love: in memory of Paolo Freire (1998), Darder, A. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED426154

https://www.learningforjustice.org/frameworks/critical-practices

Includes Handout on poverty-related principles: https://www.equityliteracy.org/equity-literacy

Film analysis: Benign Inequality: Frames of Poverty and Social Class

Inequality in Children’s Movies (2017), Streib,J.,  Ayala, M. &  Wixted, C. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10875549.2015.1112870

 

On social Class (see separate section below)

Fairer Scotland Duty

https://www.gov.scot/publications/fairer-scotland-duty-interim-guidance-public-bodies/pages/2/

https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-equalities-impact-fairer-scotland-duty-assessment-replacement-national-qualifications-exams-2021-session-alternative-certification-model/pages/4/Learning

Growing Up in Scotland research

Human Rights

Please see Professional Learning Programme pages here, Module Resource Packs, here, HRBA pages here. Human Rights Education (HRE) generally is a separate heading below..

Human Rights Education (HRE)

Please see Module Resource Packs and HRBA pages on this site

Global Citizenship Education and Human Rights in Scottish Education: an analysis of education policy (2019), Daniels, S. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2047173418769910

Building Blocks for Improving Human Rights Education within Initial Teacher Education in Scotland (2015), Struthers, A.E.C. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13642987.2014.986652

Teaching Human Rights? ‘All hell will break loose!’ (2014), Cassidy, C., Brunner, R., Webster, E. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1746197913475768

Human rights education:: educating about, for and through human rights (2014), Struthers, A.E.C. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13642987.2014.986652

A Review of Human Rights Education is Schools in Scotland (2013) , Watts, E. (for BEMIS): https://www.equallyours.org.uk/bemis-a-review-of-human-rights-education-in-schools-in-scotland/

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/secondary-education-resources/lesson-plan-ideas/lesson-8-what-are-human-rights

Engagement, passivity and detachment: 16-year-old students’ conceptions of politics and the relationship between people and politics(2017), Mathe, N.E.H.  https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/berj.3313

‘Radical teaching about human rights’: https://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalteacher/article/view/252

Danish Institute of Human Rights Education Toolkit: https://www.humanrights.dk/tools/human-rights-education-toolbox

From Finland: https://www.humanrightscentre.fi/hreducation/democracy-and-human-rights-educa/

https://www.learningforjustice.org/frameworks/critical-practices

‘Even before the pandemic, poverty was the biggest human rights issue facing children in Scotland. Now things are worse.’, Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland: https://cypcs.org.uk/coronavirus/independent-impact-assessment/pandemic-impact-children-young-people-poverty/

Parental and Community engagement

Poverty

https://www.eis.org.uk/Campaigns/Child-Poverty

https://cpag.org.uk/policy-and-campaigns/report/cost-child-2020

Scotland’s Programme for Government: https://www.gov.scot/publications/fairer-greener-scotland-programme-government-2021-22/pages/5/

https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/poverty-scotland-2020

https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/destitution-uk-2020

https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/framing-toolkit-talking-about-poverty

http://www.healthscotland.scot/health-inequalities/fundamental-causes/poverty/overview-of-poverty

Film: Five Hidden Poverties, Professor John McKendrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7tcFeIxeOA

Book details: https://askcpag.org.uk/publications/-231001/poverty-in-scotland-2021

The European Anti-Poverty Network: https://www.eapn.eu/eapn-annual-policy-conference-2021-building-back-better-without-poverty/

http://povertytruthcommission.blogspot.com/

Anti-poverty bodies/organisations

The Poverty and Inequality Commission: https://povertyinequality.scot/

https://cpag.org.uk/about-cpag

https://www.faithincommunity.scot/poverty-truth-community

https://www.atd-fourthworld.org/who-we-are/

The Poverty Alliance – Front page

https://www.jrf.org.uk/about-us

Children’s poverty

https://povertyinequality.scot/publication/poverty-and-inequality-commission-child-poverty-scrutiny-report-2020-21-report-to-scottish-government/

https://cpag.org.uk/scotland/child-poverty/facts

https://cpag.org.uk/policy-and-campaigns/report/cost-child-2020

Audio Interview:https://soundcloud.com/gcu-common-good-podcast/alleviating-child-poverty-in-scotland-with-professor-john-mckendrick

https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2020/01/16/child-poverty-is-not-inevitable-it-is-a-political-choice/

https://connect.scot/teacher-professional/resources/dispelling-myth-parental-poverty-aspiration-morag-treanor

Digital rights: https://young.scot/campaigns/national/5rights

On children’s rights, incl. on poverty: European Network of Ombudspersons for Children: http://enoc.eu/?page_id=186

Children’s poverty and health

https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/resources/poverty-child-health-views-frontlineAttainment Gap

http://www.healthscotland.scot/population-groups/children/children-overview

Covid and poverty

Even before the pandemic, poverty was the biggest human rights issue facing children in Scotland. Now things are worse.’, Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland: https://cypcs.org.uk/coronavirus/independent-impact-assessment/pandemic-impact-children-young-people-poverty/

https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/covid-19-early-years-resilience-and-impact-survey-ceyris/

https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/publications/how-covid-19-crisis-measures-reveal-the-conflation-between-povert

https://www.povertyalliance.org/stark-gaps-in-educational-attainment-risk-being-compounded-by-covid-warns-new-poverty-alliance-report/

Human Rights Education (HRE) on poverty (see separate section)

Intersectionality and poverty

https://povertyinequality.scot/publication/intersectionality-revealing-the-realities-of-poverty-and-inequality-in-scotland/

https://www.therobertsontrust.org.uk/publications/hard-edges-scotland/

Food

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Women’s Poverty

https://cpag.org.uk/news-blogs/news-listings/women-pandemic-experiences-covid-realities

https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/unions-and-charities-call-ehrc-investigate-whether-government-has-broken-equality-law-during

Key Facts: https://povertyinequality.scot/poverty-scotland/

Women and work: https://www.closethegap.org.uk/

Positive Destinations/School Leavers

https://www.gov.scot/publications/summary-statistics-attainment-initial-leaver-destinations-no-3-2021-edition/pages/2/

https://www.tes.com/news/leaver-destination-stats-still-include-zero-hour-jobs

Apprentice wages: https://www.ucas.com/apprenticeships/money-funding-and-finance-apprenticeships

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/publication-download/exploring-positive-action-tool-address-under-representation-apprenticeships

Social_origins_academic_strength_of_school_curriculum…

‘Fair access to HE  toolkit’: https://www.fairaccess.scot/

Psychology

https://www.bps.org.uk/blogs/daniel-ohare/children%E2%80%99s-mental-health-we%E2%80%99re-still-not-looking-far-enough-upstream

Psychologists for social change http://www.psychchange.org/

Psychologists against austerity: http://www.psychchange.org/psychologists-against-austerity.html

British Psychological Society, Power, Threat, Meaning (PTM) Framework: https://www.bps.org.uk/power-threat-meaning-framework

And – for info.  https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/behavioural-insights-team

Also: https://www.bi.team/

Social Class

https://www.academia.edu/22928123/Unlearning_Deficit

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317161218_Signs_of_Social_Class

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288242701_Seeing_the_Wood_from_the_Trees

Cultural Knowledge and Social Inequality (2015): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0003122414565814

Social Class Culture Cycles (2013): https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115143

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/07/the-class-pay-gap-why-it-pays-to-be-privileged

Materials for educators re. bias: https://www.equityliteracy.org/equity-literacy-definition

Wealth

http://www.healthscotland.scot/health-inequalities/fundamental-causes/wealth-inequality

Social security reforms have channelled welfare towards the rich: what research and policy agenda does this set? (2018): http://www.social-policy.org.uk/50-for-50/social-security-reforms/

‘Why aren’t rich people happy with the money they have?

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/rich-people-happy-money/577231/

‘For the few, not the many’ still drives Scotland’s schools system’: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/24/for-the-few-not-the-many-still-drives-scotland-school-system

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19319012.scotlands-top-10-richest-people-2021—-increased-fortunes-pandemic/

https://policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/housing-wealth-inequality-in-scotland/

http://www.andywightman.com/archives/category/who-owns-scotland

Land ownership register (needs subscription to view data): http://www.whoownsscotland.org.uk/

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