b. For each of the major ecological contexts, identify two characteristics of ethnically diverse children from backgrounds of poverty that might be affected and explain why those characteristics might contribute to their lower academic achievement in comparison to students from middle-class backgrounds.

The major ecological contexts involved are - child, family, culture and community. However the focus will be on the Child and Family Context.

Explanation:

At the level of Child;

An impoverish child will not only lack focus, but will be psychological unbalanced. Poverty not only take a child's right away but made a child not to meet up with basic psychological needs needed to survive daily life challenges. Thus such a child will be struggling with academic pursuit.

The wrong notion; I can't make it or I can't do it attitude makes some children to conclude that intelligence is fixed, and usually go with wealth. Therefore a child with the mindset of intelligence belief will find it difficult to progress when faced with little challenges of life. The fact that I can not do it, keeps on weakening the zeal to forge ahead.

At the family level

opinion about the need for education.

Discrimination is deafting. It kills morals, weaken zeal, and debar progress, Children with the mindsets that the ethnicity is disparagingly regarded in the society will in have slim chances of success in academics and life pursuits. Thus they might fight it difficult to take academic serious.

parents expectation for child's achievements.

Specious believe among some parents that, an average grades is rewarding and self-fulfilled may affect a child zeal to push harder for success. Such believe will not only jeopardize the chances of excelling in academics, but may scuttle the chances of achieve great success in carrier pursuits,

The children face lack of nutrition which makes it very difficult or even worse for them to work even more harder and achieve the same grades as that of a kid acquires while studying in the more advanced way, as there are different factors which contributes in the over all development of the pupils career and personnel development as well to ensure better grades. There is lack of guidance from the parents or any guardian who is raising the kid, due to the fact that most of people work for earning bread for there families all day long. As most of these people are illiterate and do not have any sense of education or any information regarding the various factors.