A Framework For Understanding Poverty - 778 Words

A Framework for Understanding Poverty Tammy D.Pernell University of West Alabama July 10, 2016 Introduction A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne builds a model for combating poverty by tackling it at the earliest level of perpetuation-in schools. Schools, Payne advocates, should be the first line of defense against encroaching poverty and also the most effective weapon to beat it back. Unlike most economic tools, schools should be fine-tuned and deployed according to strict frameworks. Payne identifies two types of poverty and list eight resources which makes one a candidate. The thrust is thus primarily on how to deal with poverty in schools and how to equip the students with tools and education†¦show more content†¦2. Identifies strengths and resources already found in the individual, family, school, and community and adds new information and a new perspective for creating and growing resources. 3. Offers economic diversity as a prism through which individuals and schools can analyze and respond to their issues. 4. Identifies skills, theories of change, program designs, partnerships, and ways of building schools where students achieve. 5. Encourages the development of strategies to respond to all causes of poverty. Payne indicates that all individuals brings with him/her the hidden rules of the class in which he/she was raised. Even though the income of the individual may rise significantly, many of the patterns of thought, social interaction, cognitive strategies, etc., remain with the individual. Schools and businesses operate from middle-class norms and use the hidden rules of middle class. The norms and hidden rules are not directly taught in schools or in businesses. Implications for Counseling A Framework for Understanding Poverty is a valuable tool to the helping profession. It has a lot of good information about the cultural differences between classes. It offers practical solutions to many problems commonly encountered when educators have problems with their students who live in poverty. The book helps educators to assist students who live in poverty survive in the middle-class world. Payne s work has been eye opening in