Session Eight Activity Three-Contemporary
Influences
The most predominant person who has done research on poverty is
Dr. Ruby Payne. Dr. Ruby Payne has created a framework for poverty,
as well as several other fine educators. I have come to define poverty
as the ability of a person or persons to live without some form of resources.
It appears that the only way to stop the cycle of poverty is to get educated.
With an education comes a better job and with a better job comes money.
Obtaining money often leads to the ability to purchase resources. Resources
include but are not limited to:
a) financial
b) emotional
c) mental
d) support
e) physical
f) spiritual
g) cultural
h) relationships
i) educational
Many people believe that the only reason why students are considered impoverished
is because they have a lack of financial resources, however, there are other
factors involved. At-risk students are at-risk of remaining in a cycle
because they often have generational poverty. Generational poverty
is when a person has two generations of poverty in the family. Other
at-risk students have situational poverty. Situational poverty is where
a situation of one sort or another caused the student or the students’ family
to loose a resource. The loss of a resource left the student in poverty
and therefore defined as at-risk.
Sources:
APQC Publications
http://www.apqc.org/pubs/
aha! Process
http://ahaprocess.com/AboutUs.html
World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/socialprotection/srm/seminarsvc/pdfdppt/srmenglish.pdf
The Leadership Academy
http://www.dese.state.mo.us/divteachqual/leadership/rpayne/PayneSeries.pdf
Understanding and Responding to Poverty
http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/mission/up1.htm