Education and its importance.
The importance of education cannot be underestimated, especially in developing countries. Education is the fundamental element to lift people and societies out of poverty, because the knowledge obtained from science serves to give children the necessary confidence to complete the educational process and thus better achieve dreams and help future generations, and help bring about changes that are big and different for adults, especially in their daily lives, on nutrition, education and health care, making them a good role model for their children and encouraging them to learn.
The impact of poverty on education
Poverty is defined as the condition in which people lack material goods; Like money, the necessary means that are needed to satisfy your basic needs and are associated with various attributes; Such as poor health, low levels of training and education, inability to work, as well as uncontrolled negative behaviors such as sabotage, extravagance, , as well as their negative effects on both the individual and society.
Despite the importance of education in improving the lives of poor people around the world, researchers have confirmed the impact of poverty on children's learning and education, with studies confirming in their research a link directly between low and middle income. Chronic health problems, mental disorders, social and academic functioning, and additional research also provide evidence that poverty reduces a child's readiness for school through several factors, including; The prevalence, depth, duration and concentration of poverty and crime in the student community and the impact of poverty on social networks.
Poverty creates great challenges that make life difficult for children, especially in the field of education, which is why governments strive to spend small portions of their GDP on education, making it inaccessible to poor and low-income families. quality, due to overcrowding. Classrooms, broken computers and a cadre of teachers unqualified for teaching, all these conditions do not meet the needs of the students, and although the schools are usually free, there are some additional costs of provision of school uniforms, purchase of books and transportation that the student needs. To move, especially in rural areas, you also lose money. Poor families are encouraged to send their children to school instead of working for a living.
There are many statistics that have been made to reveal the impact of poverty on education, among them the Urban Institute statistic that showed that 30% of children suffering from poverty do not finish the secondary stage of their school life, which that reduces the percentage of children suffering from Economic success rates, as well as employment rates, lead to poverty. As an adult, these statistics were shocking because they showed the effect of poverty on a student's ability to succeed, by:
Preparing for school
School preparation depends on the cognitive development of children. Children in poverty are less willing to enter kindergarten, which helps in the development of their knowledge, as low-income families do not have enough time to read to their children and do not have enough money to enter kindergarten, and the family environment is generally unstable, on Unlike high-income families, which are usually able to provide the necessary funds for the development of their children's cognitive abilities and their readiness to enter kindergarten.
school attendance
Chronic absenteeism from school occurs at a rate of three to four times in poor areas, so that the majority of absent students are from the poor class, due to the conditions surrounding them from the daily pressures of raising siblings, the high rates of disease, and the frequent violence in their community, and also because of the constant movement to search for Jobs.
bullying
There are some studies that have been conducted that confirm that students from poor families are more likely have a higher rate of bullying than other schools as some families are rich and others are very poor.
Academic and cognitive achievement
Children who live in a poor environment are often exposed to great stress and tension, which leads to low IQ and cognition, and lack of social skills, which negatively affects attention and concentration, and therefore educational and cognitive achievement is very low in poor societies, because they listen to mutual conversations They participate in it less than others and therefore do not have enough vocabulary to match these characteristics, so it is important to create an alternative environment for children to reduce the effects of poverty. On them, this task falls on the shoulders of the parents, the children are able to easily adapt to the conditions that they create for them, which will play an important role in improving their lives, and it is enough to create a kind of hope in their lives. life to make them relate to the future, and it can also change their opinion for the better.
school behavior
Strong and secure relationships in the family help stabilize children’s behavior and provide the basics needed to build social skills, and teach them healthy emotional responses that are appropriate to the daily situations they are exposed to, but for children of poor families, they usually fail to learn these responses, due to their lack of these relationships, And all at the expense of their
The pressures that the child is exposed to from a disturbed home environment due to poverty and living conditions negatively affect the child’s learning and behavior, so that he tends to direct this pressure to negative behavior in school, and he has a disturbed social, academic and health ability. This makes him distracted, focused and poor in memory. He suffers from a high rate of depression, and his social and creative skills are reduced.
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