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The book includes tips to teach students the hidden rules of school and workplace settings and discusses the pressing need for educators to recognize various types of poverty that students may come from.
Based on more than two decades of practical experience and empirical research, A Framework for Understanding Poverty spins a series of situational vignettes that help educators and other working professionals understand, interact with, and teach students from impoverished backgrounds.
Nine chapters explain components of the poverty culture, contributing to a comprehensive view of poverty - both in definition and lifestyle. Effective professional development initiatives aimed at working with students from poverty culture should be designed with these ideas in mind. Payne outlines 10 basic ideas related to poverty. Poverty is:
* Relative;
* Present in all cultures and ethnic groups;
* Defined along an economic class continuum;
* Related to the amount of time spent without various resources;
* A matter of habit that can establish very distinct cyclical patterns;