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Date Published: 1998
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Publisher: Aha Process Inc
Date Published: 2003-10-15
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Publisher: Aha! Press
Date Published: 2001
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Description: Fine. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. "A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING POVERTY teaches the hidden rules for economic xlass and spreads the message that, despite the obstacles poverty can create in all types of interaction, there are specific strategies for overcoming them. " This book has 205 pages and is illustrated throughout. read more
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Date Published: 2003
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Date Published: 2003
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Publisher: Aha Process Inc, Highlands, Texa
Date Published: 2001
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Publisher: Aha Process Inc
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781929229147ISBN:1929229143
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"I had heard great things about this book, and was inclined favorably towards it. But the more I read, the more I felt that a more accurate title would have been "Outdated Stereotypes for Oversimplifying Poverty." Although the book has many references, and thus "looks scholarly," if you peruse the bibliography, you will see that much of Payne's substantive material comes from one book published by Sage, which she cites repeatedly. She also cites a number of books about poverty and/or American society that were published in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s--there is very little recent scholarly literature in her bibliography. In other words, I was very disappointed by the quality of her research, and didn't feel that her assertions were backed up with recent, peer-reviewed literature. Ultimately, she seemed to reiterate a lot of ideas about the poor that were first articulated in the middle of the century."
"This book was from the personal experience and research of doctor Payne regarding the three levels of wealth as identified in the schooling system as 'poverty', 'middle class', and 'wealth'. The focus in the book is on the resources that are necessary to change from one class to the next. It helps the reader to identify those resources, understand why one class has some types of resources and the other classes have different resources. She claims that poverty has very little if nothing to do with actual financial issues, but instead is about the obtainment and use of resources. The resources Payne narrows in on are; financial, emotional, mental, spiritual, physical, support systems, relationships/role models, and knowledge of hidden rules. The most important resource she claims is relationships. This plays directly into the role of a teacher as being able to help teach how to build strong relationships and being a positive role model for those students and families. She breaks the resources into different chapters, shares the research behind each of the resources, provides case studies and ends each chapter with tips on how to use this information in schools.
There are many important notions that I think will help me to better understand my students. Toward the end of each chapter, Payne gave some tips on how this information can be applied to the school and classroom. There were plenty of suggestions that I have recorded and plan to implement in the upcoming school year to help provide the most resources for my students as I can. An example would be that my lessons should focus on some of the skills that poverty students generally do not have (though middle class citizens such as myself assume everyone knows how to do and that they do it automatically) like; teaching students to plan, how to evaluate behaviors, how to explore data systematically and use specific language. The last two are important to science as we focus directly with large amounts of data and I now know that I need to teach the students how to intake, explore and analyze that data properly. As well, science is often a language in and of itself and while I know the language intimately, it is nice to get a professional reminder that not all sixteen year olds know how to speak and write in science terms. For any teacher who works with poverty students, I highly suggest this book."
"Some of the comments and reviews here on GoodReads are surprising, almost as if they had read a different book than the one I read.
The unexamined will control us, and this book is about unexamined assumptions and the "hidden" social rules of each class that keep individuals pigeonholed and divided. It is ironic, then, that the author is accused by some of doing the pigeonholing and dividing.
She is accused of racism, although what she seeks to demonstrate in her work is that certain social patterns - communication style, interaction, formative ideas about money and power, to name just a few dimensions - transcend racial identity. This would be an argument *against* racial discrimination. Yet detractors accuse her of keeping racial stereotypes in place, with no support to buttress the charge. (I suppose it is because one case study, based on real people, has an African-American name, and another a Hispanic name. Are there no African-Americans or Hispanics in poverty?)
Her description of patterns is itself used by detractors to accuse her of stereotyping. Payne herself warns about stereotyping, which happens when one assumes there is no individual difference from a pattern. She identifies this fallacy herself. Patterns are simply trends, or overlapping behaviors by individual members of a particular group (such as, a class of people with similar access to resources and power).
If we cannot address areas of overlap, how will it be possible to make any constructive critique of how society keeps people in their boxes? This would be a good question to consider for those who accuse Payne of some kind of conservative agenda. Whose interest does it serve when insights about the interaction of social classes gets shouted down? The answer is clear: dominating social institutions and privileged families.
Finally, we might refresh our understanding of the book's stated objective. This is not a framework for healing class divisions, it is not a comprehensive sociological critique of society, and yes, it does leave aside the use of racism as a legitimating force for the process of social stratification. It does, all the same, offer some worthwhile reflections for beginning that critique and working towards a society based on justice, equality of opportunity, and personal liberty.
How ironic that some would call that "conservative.""
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