Power, poverty and place: why the local matters
| Dates: | 1 December 2022 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Policy@Manchester |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults |
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| Speaker: | Louisa Dawes, Carl Emery |
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‘What we believe about low-income students - how we relate to them - in fact, it plays a considerable role in determining how we teach them’ (Robinson, 2007)
Evidence shows that what we are doing to eradicate the disadvantage gap isn’t working. At the current rate of reduction, it will take over 500 years for ‘disadvantaged’ children to match the exam success of their ‘advantaged’ peers.
This seminar will set out the current levels of poverty, associated metrics and its impact on children, schooling and communities in Greater Manchester. Carl Emery and Louise Dawes, from the Manchester Institute of Education, will examine the dominant model of one-size-fits-all in regard to reducing the (disadvantage) attainment gap and explore alternative localised approaches, thereby connecting the narrow ‘what works’ policy agenda to ‘what matters’ to people and place.
Throughout this discussion, they will be drawing on knowledge developed by the Local Matters research network and a specific case study presented by Manchester Food Bank.
Their approach recognises that poverty, and the responses to it, need to be far more nuanced than the current social mobility agenda offers.
Speakers
Louisa Dawes
Role: Lecturer in Education
Organisation: Manchester Institute of Education
Carl Emery
Role: Lecturer in Education
Organisation: Manchester Institute of Education
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2B.026
Engineering B
Upper Brook Street
Manchester
