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Culture, Poverty, and Education

What's Happening in Today's Schools?
  • ISBN-13: 9781475820126
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
  • By Michele Wages
  • Price: AUD $60.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/12/2015
  • Format: Paperback 78 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Education [JN]
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Most changes in education-including the rise of standardized testing, holding teachers accountable for their students' academic performance, and rewriting math and reading standards-don't address poverty. Understanding the relationship between poverty, class, and education for decades has been framed through studies on the behavior and culture of poor students and their families. Educators are caught up in the history of classism and are often guilty of buying into the mindset-including the implementation of activities and strategies for working with 'parents' in poverty or 'students' in poverty-that leads them to believe in the need to 'fix' the poor instead of eliminating the inequities that oppress them. So it is not just one or the other; nature or nurture, poor or not poor. Poverty is a potential outcome for all of us. Culture, Poverty, and Education: What's Happening in Today's Schools? is intended to not only discuss 5 myths about the culture of poverty and its effects on education, but provide some resources on alternatives for educator's to better address this growing barrier to student achievement in today's schools.
INTRODUCTION PREFACE CHAPTER 1:THREE THEORETICAL MODELS ON THE CULTURE OF POVERTY CHAPTER 2: POOR PEOPLE ARE UNMOTIVATED AND HAVE WEAK WORK ETHIC? CHAPTER 3:POOR PARENTS ARE UNINVOLVED IN THEIR CHILDREN'S LEARNING? CHAPTER 4:POOR PEOPLE ARE LINGUISTICALLY DEFICIENT? CHAPTER 5: POOR PEOPLE TEND TO ABUSE DRUGS AND ALCOHOL? CHAPTER 6:POVERTY HAS LITTLE LASTING IMPACT ON CHILDREN? CHAPTER 7:THE EFFECTS OF POVERTY ON THE BRAIN CHAPTER 8:THE CULTURE OF CLASSISM CHAPTER 9:STORIES OF POVERTY CHAPTER 10:TODAY'S EDUCATOR TERMS REFERENCES
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