Pathologizing the Poor: Implications for Preparing Teachers to Work in High-Poverty Schools

• In Event: Teacher Preparation in Low-Performing Urban Settings

Abstract

Given the number of frameworks that offer disturbing, reductive, and often prescriptive recommendations about teaching students in poverty, we seek to accomplish three goals with this presentation: 1) to discuss the limitations of existing popular frameworks on educating students living in poverty, 2) to summarize mythologies about poverty which impact student-teacher relationships 3) to offer new perspectives on educating students from impoverished backgrounds by providing design principles which can undergird our approach to teacher preparation.

Authors

• Kerri A. Ullucci, Roger Williams University

• Tyrone C. Howard, University of California - Los Angeles