Culture, poverty, and education
Subtitle: what's happening in today's schools?
By: Michele Wages, PhD
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
ISBN-13: 9781475820119; 9781475820126
Subjects: Poor; Poverty; Parent participation; Multicultural education; Education; Students with social disabilities; Cultural awareness
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Three theoretical models on the culture of poverty; title: Myth number 1 : poor people are unmotivated and have weak work ethic?; title: Myth number 2 : poor parents are uninvolved in their children's learning largely because they do not value education?; title: Myth number 3 : poor people are linguistically deficient?; title: Myth number 4 : poor people tend to abuse drugs and alcohol?; title: Myth number 5 : poverty has little lasting impact on children?; title: The effects of poverty on the brain; title: The culture of classism; title: Stories of poverty; title: Today's educator.