A Framework for Understanding Poverty - A Cognitive Approach
Subtitle: for educators, policymakers, employers, and service providers
Publisher: aha! Process
Published: Nov 01, 2018
Place of publication: Highlands, TX
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781948244183
Copyright date: 2019
Notes: Source title: A Framework for Understanding Poverty - A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition)
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Resources, 'reality,' and interventions : how they impact 'situated learning'; title: 2. Language and story : how they impact thinking, school, and work; title: 3. Hidden rules among classes : how they impact relationships with people different from you; title: 4. The 'situated learning' reality of generational poverty : how it impacts navigation of one's life; title: 5. Role models and emotional resources : how they provide for stability and success; title: 6. Support systems and parents : how they impact the ability to do homework and to navigate school and work; title: 7. Creating relationships : how and why one is motivated to learn and change; title: 8. Discipline : how to manage personal behavior so one can 'win' in a given environment; title: 9. Instruction and improving achievement : how to live in the abstract representational world of school and work; title: 10. Poverty and intersectionality : how poverty intersects with race, health, immigration; title: 11. Poverty and the brain : how poverty impacts brain development; title: 12. The parents of children in poverty : how to understand where they're coming from; title: Conclusion; title: Appendixes.; title: A. Resources and interventions; title: B. What are the causes of poverty? : Excerpt from Understanding and Engaging Under-Resourced College Students; title: C. What information does A Framework for Understanding Poverty have that cannot be obtained easily from other sources? Why do critics love to hate it and practitioners love to use it?; title: D. Poverty statistics; title: E. Where do we go from here? How do communities develop intellectual capital and sustainability?; title: F. Study guide