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Source link Poverty continues to remain an acute problem facing society, and its effects reach far and wide. A new research paper published in ScienceDaily, a digital magazine devoted to science, focuses on how poverty affects an individual’s ability to learn in both academic and creative contexts.
The paper, authored by a team of researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles, builds on previous research that identified disparities in academic performance between individuals living in poverty and their more affluent peers.
The team observed students from underprivileged backgrounds to see how poverty influences their learning. They discovered that not only did students from lower-income families perform worse on academic tests, but the affect of poverty on the development of creative thinking skills was also significant.
The research team found that poverty’s impact on academic performance was related to such factors as access to educational resources, early childhood experiences, and even motivational and emotional difficulties caused by poverty. Poverty’s effect on creative problem solving, on the other hand, was largely related to a lack of exposure to instructional materials that encourage creativity.
Additionally, the researchers discovered that while the impact of poverty on learning is significant in both academic and creative contexts, interventions that help bridge the gap in academic performance may be less successful in helping those living in poverty develop creative problem-solving skills.
The research team concludes that the issue of poverty and learning are intertwined, and while efforts must be made to increase access to educational resources and academic performance in those living in poverty, additional attention must also be paid to providing opportunities to foster creativity and innovative problem-solving skills. As such, it is hoped that this research will help to inform both policy approaches and interventions that tackle poverty and its insidious effects on learning.
