Ricerc@Sapienza

The theme of educational poverty is becoming increasingly central to the national and international
scientific and pedagogical debate, but also to the public and political one. The concept is
multidimensional and presents the characteristics of scale necessary to frame the complexity of
social and educational situations related to inequalities and issues of equity, social justice and access to rights not relegated to the economic sphere alone. The contribution aims to initiate a
critical reflection, with a reading also declined to the theme of resilience, to identify factors and
dimensions and starts a first reconnaissance of what could be the elements to be considered in the
study of the phenomenon of educational poverty and school dropout, in their theoretical aspects.