With reference to evidence from module E219 and your own literature searches, discuss the factors and processes involved in the effects of poverty on development through childhood to adolescence, as proposed in the paper by Engle and Black.

With reference to evidence from module E219 and your own literature searches, discuss the factors and processes involved in the effects of poverty on development through childhood to adolescence, as proposed in the paper by Engle and Black.

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With reference to evidence from module E219 and your own literature searches, discuss the factors and processes involved in the effects of poverty on development through childhood to adolescence, as proposed in the paper by Engle and Black.
You should draw from material in at least two of the three parts of the module
1)the early years
2)middle childhood
3)adolescence
and at least three of the module themes
1)attachment https://learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=851959

2)identity https://learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=851940

3)representation https://learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=851965

4)emotion and communication https://learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=851968

This EMA requires you to write a ‘mini-dissertation’: an essay in an academic style that demonstrates your knowledge of specific issues discussed in the module materials, based on your studies of the module and additional sources that you have researched yourself.
This assessment sets you a broad question, allowing you to draw on any of the materials covered in at least two of the three parts of the module. You should choose carefully which of the themes to focus on in your essay. You are also required to show evidence of having researched and read beyond the module materials to support the arguments you make.
Below is a link to the research paper. It discusses evidence for how a child’s preparedness for school and their subsequent achievements are affected by poverty and the various aspects of how these effects occur. It uses evidence from intervention studies to consider how such effects can be alleviated or overcome. The material that you covered in all themes and parts of E219 is either directly or indirectly relevant to many aspects of the focus of this paper.
Research paper: Engle, P. L. and Black, M. M. (2008) ‘The effect of poverty on child development and educational outcomes’, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol.1136, no. 1, pp. 243–56.
Table 1, on page 252 of the paper, gives an overview of the main risk factors for which there is evidence of effects on developmental outcomes. You could analyse which of these have linked, relevant material in E219, and which others you might wish to investigate yourself using online searching.
Chapter 9, here is the link https://learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=851947
in Part 2 of the module, will be a good starting point, helping you to think about risks and their effects, as well as helping you to link Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems model with ‘developmental systems theories’ as described in the paper. You can also usefully draw on the information on transactional models throughout the module (use the ‘Search this website’ feature on the study planner to find all instances) which will give you a framework for your thinking.
You do not need to go into detail in your essay about the intervention studies, but rather extract the main points from those parts of the paper that allow you to address the EMA topic.