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Educational Outcomes: Adversity and Resilience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2009

Robert Cassen ,
Leon Feinstein  and
Philip Graham
Robert Cassen
Affiliation:
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of EconomicsInstitute of Child Health E-mail: r.cassen@lse.ac.uk, pjgraham1@aol.com
Leon Feinstein
Affiliation:
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of EconomicsInstitute of Child Health E-mail: r.cassen@lse.ac.uk, pjgraham1@aol.com
Philip Graham
Affiliation:
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of EconomicsInstitute of Child Health E-mail: r.cassen@lse.ac.uk, pjgraham1@aol.com
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Abstract

In the context of risk and resilience, the paper attempts to integrate three strands of research: genetic and mental-health factors, the findings of cohort studies and those of other investigations of educational outcomes. A very wide range of factors, many of them related to disadvantage, bear on such outcomes, but none deterministically. Intelligence, conduct and emotional disorders are all found to influence academic achievement to varying degrees, as do a number of aspects of family, school and the wider social environment. Aspects that contribute to resilience are identified, and the paper concludes with a discussion of interventions to enhance resilience.

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Themed Section on Resilience and Social Exclusion
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 73 - 85
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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