Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 78
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4758-2011-9 • Hardback • October 2015 • $60.00 • (£46.00)
978-1-4758-2012-6 • Paperback • October 2015 • $32.00 • (£25.00)
978-1-4758-2013-3 • eBook • October 2015 • $30.00 • (£25.00)
Dr. Michele Wages is an Assistant Professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University teaching Emergent and Developing Literacy and Diagnosis and Remediation of Reading at Elementary Level to elementary education majors. In her 26 year career she has served as an instructional specialist on title one campuses in the DFW area for 9 years, including a bilingual campus with an 86% Hispanic student enrollment and a free and reduced lunch demographic of 96%. She has also served as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts facilitator and has provided staff development training for teachers in Texas.
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
Wow! This is an eye opening book. By using the stereotypes we have all heard about the impoverished, Dr. Wages provides a new perspective and way of thinking about teaching students in poverty. I discovered that I truly was always wanting to fix the children and their way of life. Within the pages of this book however, I now know that my focus should be in embracing their strengths and targeting in on nurturing them to become successful decision makers.
— Monica Murff Elliott, First Grade Teacher
What a powerful book for teachers who work in schools today. It helps clear misconceptions that we might hold about children in poverty that are in the classroom every day. The myths, the stories, and the strategies made me question my own beliefs. This book is the kind of professional literature we need in teacher's hands and on their bookshelf.
— Beth Ross, K-5 Science District Teacher Facilitator
When teaching students in poverty there are many things to understand and consider. Culture, Poverty, and Education: What’s Happening in Today’s Schools? is a well balanced book that not only provides an excellent explanation of how stereotypes about poverty are truly not reality, but also sheds light on how the reality is affecting today’s students while also including strategies for their teachers.
— Melissa Hassell MLS, Fifth grade teacher