Socio-economic class is an important factor that influences a child’s educational success. In spite of numerous policies to permit a child’s right to the highest quality of education, aspects such as social class, background and access to knowledge are extremely significant on a child’s development and educational achievement. In this paper, I will examine how social class, background, and access to knowledge influence a student’s achievement to show education is a complex issue.
Socio-economic class is the idea or concept that the divisions in society are visible and are the result of differential access to wealth and to capital. Some individuals have a lot and some have very little. Socio-economic class in education is the “capital that …show more content…
There was a real mixture of children from wealthy families to children from poorer families throughout primary education in New Zealand. By the 1980’s however this combination of social classes changed. Where you now have prestige’s schools in wealthy regions and the opposite side of the scale with underprivileged schools in poorer areas. School zoning can now be seen as fixed, however they were not seen this way up until this period. This idea of inequality started to alter the way people perceived and thought about knowledge. Therefore there was a change in attitudes towards the idea of access to knowledge. Due to the gap in classes there then was a vast inequality in a child’s home environment and therefore they carried the social and family capital through to education (Snook & O’Neill, 2010). A flow on effect of this was how people saw each other in terms of different social classes and how they evaluated the value of a family’s network system. Hence the higher socio-economic families would to be expected to have a vast network which can lead to their children attending a higher level of education. On the other side of the scale families from the lower socio-economic classes would not have had the funds or had unreliable domestic earnings to assistance their child’s educational
Socio-economic class is the idea or concept that the divisions in society are visible and are the result of differential access to wealth and to capital. Some individuals have a lot and some have very little. Socio-economic class in education is the “capital that …show more content…
There was a real mixture of children from wealthy families to children from poorer families throughout primary education in New Zealand. By the 1980’s however this combination of social classes changed. Where you now have prestige’s schools in wealthy regions and the opposite side of the scale with underprivileged schools in poorer areas. School zoning can now be seen as fixed, however they were not seen this way up until this period. This idea of inequality started to alter the way people perceived and thought about knowledge. Therefore there was a change in attitudes towards the idea of access to knowledge. Due to the gap in classes there then was a vast inequality in a child’s home environment and therefore they carried the social and family capital through to education (Snook & O’Neill, 2010). A flow on effect of this was how people saw each other in terms of different social classes and how they evaluated the value of a family’s network system. Hence the higher socio-economic families would to be expected to have a vast network which can lead to their children attending a higher level of education. On the other side of the scale families from the lower socio-economic classes would not have had the funds or had unreliable domestic earnings to assistance their child’s educational