Poverty in Education Across the UK

Ian Thompson is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Oxford and Co-Editor of the journal Teaching Education. He is a leading member of the research group Excluded Lives. Gabrielle Ivinson is Professor of Education and Community at Manchester Metropolitan University. She co-ordinates the Creative Margins network exploring how to make arts accessible to marginalised young people.

• Foreword ~ Danny Dorling;Introduction: The Landscape of Poverty and Education across the UK ~ Ian Thompson and Gabrielle Ivinson;Policy, Education and Poverty across the UK ~ Gabrielle Ivinson and Ian Thompson;Poverty and Education in Northern Ireland: The Legacy of Division and Conflict ~ Ruth Leitch and Erik Cownie;Poverty and Education in Scotland: Reality and Response ~ Stephen McKinney, Stuart Hall and Kevin Lowden;Poverty and Education in Wales: Enabling a National Mission ~ David Egan;Poverty and Education in England: A School System in Crisis ~ Ian Thompson;Diffracting Educational Policies through the Lens of Young People’s Experiences ~ Gabrielle Ivinson