Transcription of Understanding Poverty Ruby Payne - aha! Process - Poverty ...
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Although this article was orig-inally written for teachers,the information presentedmay be of help to those whoare working with persons making thetransition from welfare to understand and work with stu-dents and adults from generationalpoverty, a framework is needed. Thisanalytical framework is shapedaround these basic ideas: Each individual has eightresources which greatly influenceachievement; money is only one. Poverty is the extent to which anindividual is without these eightresources. The hidden rules of the middleclass govern schools and work; stu-dents from generational Poverty comewith a completely different set ofhidden rules and do not know middle-class hidden rules. Language issues and the storystructure of casual register causemany students from generationalpoverty to be unmediated, and there-fore, the cognitive structures neededinside the mind to learn at the levelsrequired by state tests have not beenfully developed.
Generational poverty and situa-tional poverty are different. Generational poverty is defined as being in poverty for two generations or longer. Situational poverty exists for a shorter time is caused by circum-stances like death, illness, or divorce. This framework is based on pat-terns. All patterns have exceptions. An individual bring with them
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