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A Framework for Understanding Poverty | 
 enlarge | Author: Ruby K. Payne
Publisher: aha Process, Inc.
Category: Book
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Rating:  96 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Pages: 199
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1929229488
EAN: 9781929229482
Publication Date: May 15, 2005
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Fourth Revised Edition. People in poverty face challenges virtually unknown to those in middle class or wealth--challenges from both obvious and hidden sources. The reality of being poor brings out a survival mentality, and turns attention away from opportunities taken for granted by everyone else. If you work with people from poverty, some understanding of how different their world is from yours will be invaluable. Whether you're an educator--or a social, health, or legal services professional--this breakthrough book gives you practical, real-world support and guidance to improve your effectiveness in working with people from all socioeconomic backgrounds. Since 1995 A Framework for Understanding Poverty has guided hundreds of thousands of educators and other professionals through the pitfalls and barriers faced by all classes, especially the poor. Carefully researched and packed with charts, tables, and questionaires, Framework not only documents the facts of poverty, it provides practical yet compassionate strategies for addressing its impact on people's lives.
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 So useful! A "must read" for educators! January 26, 2000
153 out of 173 found this review helpful
As an educator, I found Dr. Payne's book to be one of the most useful and practical books I've ever read. Just as the title reads, she offers a framework for understanding an issue that is influencing not only our schools but also our society. Her definition of poverty as related to the eight resources she describes rather than being solely defined by one's lack of finances is especially helpful for educators. In addition, Dr. Payne offers concrete strategies for working with some of our most misunderstood students. I found her explanation of the registers of language and issues surrounding them to be particularly useful in understanding some of the problems in schools today that are related to both cognition and behavior. I highly recommend this book for educators and believe also that anyone who works with individuals from poverty will also find it helpful. It makes so much sense!
A SOCIOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF POVERTY AND HOW TO GET OUT OF IT July 24, 2006
Denis Benchimol Minev (Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Economists believe that poverty is an economic phenomenon, that when an economy grows, people will simply be lifted out of poverty. Though that is true to a certain extent, this book convinced me (an economist) that there is more to it than simple economist and income.
According to the book, there are certain characteristics of people in lower income environments that make them (1) quite able to endure the hardships and (2) quite unable to shift mindsets and move to middle class. The book also demonstrates the mindset and the basic knowledge that those in poverty, in middle class and in upper class have.
There are important characteristics of people in lower class environments, including: the way the tell stories in roundabout ways, the lack of a support system or role models, the lack of recognition of a path to wealth, among others. There are important ways in which, for example, we should change our mindset and way of talking if we are to have a positive influence on the poor.
This book is a very good intro to the recognition of social differences between economic classes and the difficulties of mobility among classes. It provides a path for the priviledged to help the underpriviledged in more effective ways than just giving them money.
A "must" read for teachers who teach children in poverty September 8, 1998
Ann (gatti@linknet.net) (Lafayette, Louisiana)
79 out of 87 found this review helpful
I teach in an inner-city school where poverty is prevalent in almost every family. Not until I read Ruby Payne's book did I have an understanding of the differences involved when one teaches a child who is living in poverty. The book gives specific case studies that make you think and relate to poverty-stricken people. It then goes even further and gives the teacher examples of how to use the new knowledge in the classroom. It is, without a doubt, the best book I have ever read on the subject of poverty and how it relates to school children. I learned more from the reading of this book about how to relate to the students I teach than I have from any other book I've ever read about any subject. I have no reservations whatsoever in recommending this book to any teacher who truly wants to understand the individuals she/he teaches.
These are My Students! April 6, 2007
Barbara R. Jensen (California)
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
I teach developmental English in a community college. Unfortunately and regretably, I used to enter my classrooms with my middle-class perceptions. Heck... I am middle class. What else could I enter with? I didn't know any better. However, this book has changed my perceptions and therefore my teaching strategies and practices. I want my students to succeed. I'm addicted to student success. I live for it! Still, I just couldn't seem to get my students to think beyond the immediate present, to see a world beyond their own neighborhoods, to see that options do exist, to accept responsibility for their choices, and to stop blaming someone or something for their failures -- that's in the past - deal with what you can do and use NOW! No more "victim" mentality! Where was their motivation to strive instead of slack? Where was their motivation to go to school for something more than a financial aid check? Why did they seem addicted to their adrenalin rush of chaos followed by the crash of their roller coaster lives of happiness and then sorrow? Why were they stuck? Why was it okay to just "get by"? Overall, why weren't they like I was as a student? After reading this book, I found many of the answers I needed to help my students change their thinking -- their perceptions - their unproductive behavior -- most of all my attitudes, teaching methods, and best practices for reaching them and helping them.
In spite of my personal affinity for each student, I often felt frustrated, defeated, lost, angry, unsure of where to turn, but then I read this book. Seriously, I would advise all to turn here! Turn each page! Learn about the defeatist and survivalist mindset so many of our students enter our classes with. Learn about how to change that mindset and inspire a special and unique individual buried within that limiting shell. I am realizing that I can help do this! I can help students make this change. This book is one of the major keys to doing so!
Highly recommended!
A must reading for educators. December 4, 1998
pslocumb@pdq.net (Dr. Paul Slocumb, Abilities Plus Inc., Pearland, TX)
58 out of 68 found this review helpful
Dr. Payne's book is essential reading for educators. Those who supervise people in the workplace who have roots in poverty would also benefit greatly from reading this book. It will affect the way in which you manage people. Dr. Payne makes all of us accutely aware of our own roots, our own middle class values and mindsets. A Framework for Understanding Poverty should become a part of every school's professional library. It will change the way in which you teach and discipline children from poverty. Our knowledge of children from poverty, and our skills in working with children from poverty must increase. Having worked as a teacher and administrator for 32 years, I have seen the impact of poverty on our schools firsthand. The growth rate for this segment of our population demands that we begin to look seriously at how we as educators interface with children from poverty. As members of a democratic society, we literally cannot afford not to attend to the issues related to poverty. Reading Dr. Payne's book will put you on the right path for your journey.
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