Topic 12: Poverty and Deficit Thinking

Topic 12: Poverty and Deficit Thinking

Rejecting Ruby Payne https://deficitperspectivesdebunked.wordpress.com/debunking-ruby-payne/ Especially http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-52-spring-2016/feature/questioning-payne + http://www.tolerance.org/questioning-payne

The New Year Continues our Discussion between Authors Paul Thomas and Curt Dudley-Marling

Stop blaming poor parents for their children’s vocabulary

The "Word Gap": A Reader

"What These Children Are Like": Rejecting Deficit Views of Poverty and Language

Revisiting James Baldwin's "Black English"

If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?, James Baldwin

CCCC Statement on Ebonics

[See http://rubypayneiswrong.blogspot.com/ for an updated listing of research/resources debunking Payne's deficit view.]

Journal of Educational Controversy

Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2009

The Hidden Dimensions of Poverty: Rethinking Poverty and Education

http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal/v004n001/

*Bomer, R., Dworin, J. E., May, L., & Semingson, P. (2008). Miseducating teachers about the poor: A critical analysis of Ruby Payne's claims about poverty. Teachers College Record, 110(11).

Dworin, J. E., & Bomer, R. (2008, January). What we all (supposedly) know about the poor: A critical discourse analysis of Ruby Payne’s “Framework.” English Education, 40(2). 101-121.

Dudley-Marling, C. (2007). Return of the deficit. Journal of Educational Controvery, 2(1). Available on-line: http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal/v002n001/a004.shtml.

*Gorski, P. (2006, February 9). The classist underpinnings of Ruby Payne’s Framework. Teachers College Record.

Gorski, P. (2008, April). The myth of the “culture of poverty.” Educational Leadership, 65(7). 32-36.

*Ng, J. C., & Rury, J. L. (2006, July 18). Poverty and education: A critical analysis of the Ruby Payne phenomenon. Teachers College Record.

*See the Payne response and two counter-responses from TCR (included in your Topic 12 folder).

Payne, R.K. (2009). Using the lens of economic class to help teachers understand and teach students from poverty: A response. Teachers College Record, Date Published: May 17, 2009, http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 15629, Date Accessed: 5/21/2009 1:52:39 PM.

Bomer, R., Dworin, J. E., May, L., & Semingson, P. (2009, June 3). What’s wrong with a deficit perspective? Teachers College Record, Date Published: June 03, 2009 http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 15648, Date Accessed: 6/12/2009 8:39:17 AM.

Gorski, P. (2006, July 19). Responding to Payne’s response. Teachers College Record, Date Published: July 19, 2006 http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 12605, Date Accessed: 6/12/2009 8:37:26 AM.

Thomas, P. L. (2009). Shifting from deficit to generative practices: Addressing impoverished and all students. Teaching Children of Poverty, 1(1). http://journals.sfu.ca/tcop/index.php/tcop/issue/view/1

Thomas, P. L. (2010, July/September). The Payne of addressing race and poverty in public education: Utopian accountability and deficit assumptions of middle class America. Souls, 12(3).