ISER’s Lucinda Platt will give the keynote address this weekend at the Association for the Teaching of the Social Sciences (ATSS) annual conference.
The National ATSS CPD Conference for 2009 is being held at the University of Northampton between Friday 11 September and Sunday 13 September. Other speakers include David Gillborn, Dick Hobbs and Stephen Fuller. In addition, there will be a range of workshops and social events.
Drawing on her substantial research on ethnicity and poverty, in her talk Lucinda outlines the variation in poverty across ethnic groups and reviews the factors leading to these differences. She explores in particular the differences in child poverty according to ethnicity and across a range of different poverty ‘measures’; and reflects on the relative lack of policy attention to the substantially greater risks of poverty that face minority group children.
The ATSS is a voluntary group of Social Science teachers who have joined together to further the interests of Social Science teaching in secondary schools, Colleges and Teacher Training courses in Higher Education.