Influences of Modern Poverty on Children's Development and Schooling

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  • 現代の貧困と子どもの発達・教育
  • ゲンダイ ノ ヒンコン ト コドモ ノ ハッタツ ・ キョウイク

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Since the late 1990s, the problems of modern poverty, socio-economic differentials and deteriorating conditions of children's life, welfare and schooling have become one of the major social and policy issues. This paper deals with this issue, focussing on the academic achievement gap and child abuse. First, it proposes a conceptual framework of the relations between the physical, psychic and socio-cultural aspects of children's development and environmental factors that affect their development, and points out some developmental difficulties caused by poverty. Second, based on various statistical data, it outlines the recent realities of poverty and economic differentials, examines the factors and the mechanisms that cause the achievement gap. Third, based on several research results, it outlines a recent rising trend in child abuse, and examines its risk factors, pointing out that major risk factors of child abuse are povety, single-parent families, isolation and the fatigue of child-caring. Fourth, it shows a growing tendency for reproduction of poverty and socio-economic differerentials, and comments generally on the tasks and responsibilities of our society and policy-making.

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