EDUCATIONAL POVERTY: A COMPARISON BETWEEN MILAN, NAPLES AND ROME

OBIETTIVI: This paper compares the cities of Milan, Naples and Rome to study Educational Poverty, understanding the determinants of inequalities from a spatial perspective. Save the Children defines it as “the deprivation of children and adolescents of the opportunity to learn, experience, develop and fully realize their skills, talents and aspirations, leading to poverty both between and within generations” (Save the Children, 2014). Educational Poverty is a complex phenomenon, shaped by the socio-economic conditions of families, the background of parents, the quality of the educational system and other factors related to the territorial context in which children and adolescents grow (OECD, 2012). Approaching Educational Poverty from the very first ages can lift people out of poverty in their adulthood (Heckman, 2006). METODI: To study the phenomenon, we apply spatial analysis methods and geoinformation techniques on data from different sources such as the Permanent Population Census, the survey on the “Safety and state of degradation of cities and their suburbs” and additional spatial data retrieved from official sources. RICADUTE: Assuming a micro-territorial perspective, the results obtained through this work may be a valuable resource for policies aimed at supporting children and adolescents in most disadvantaged urban areas.