Dr ruby payne understanding poverty
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty
Building High-Achieving Schools
The book is primarily directed at building a model for combating poverty by tackling them at the earliest level of perpetuation - in schools.
Schools, Payne advocates, should be our first line of defense against encroaching poverty and also our most effective weapon to beat it back. Unlike most economic tools, schools can be fine-tuned and deployed according to strict frameworks.
The thrust is thus primarily on how to deal with poverty in schools and how to equip the students with tools and education to fight their way out of it.
For this teachers have to understand what poverty is and the disadvantages that characterize poverty — these are usually classed as inherent problems of the students, instead they have to be reframed as disadvantages that are the duty of the teachers to correct in any decent school environment.
The ‘Framework’ in the title is then a Framework for the Teachers.
A Framework For Teachers
Payne uses what he calls an ‘Additive Model’, implicit throughout this book, as a vital tool for better understanding and addressing poverty, as well as the underlying factors that perpetuate it.
Some of the most important aspect of the Model are:
1. Identifies the mindse
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty
Being in poverty is rarely about a lack of intelligence or ability.
^^ This!I've never thought enough about poverty --- what it's like for people, how they get there, how they get out --- so I'm grateful for the lessons in this book and how they've opened my eyes to the challenges of poverty.Loved: The sections on hidden rules, "could you survive in poverty," and the amazing empathy and perspective shared for those who are in poverty.
A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Dr. Ruby Payne
The following are excerpts taken from Dr. Ruby Payne's A Framework for Understanding Poverty. Bold, italics, and notes are mine. Everything else is Dr. Payne's.
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Poverty is “the extent to which an individual does without resources.”--Interventions will work only when the needed resources for that intervention are available. In other words, you have to work from strengths.These resources are the following:
- FINANCIAL: Having the money to purchase goods and services.
- EMOTIONAL: Being able to choose and control emotional responses, particularly to negative situations, without engaging in self-destructive behavior. This is an internal resource and shows itself through stamina, perseverance, and choices.
- MENTAL/COGNITIVE: Having th