P4C x ELT = P4ELT: Its Theoretical Background (Kanazawa, 2024 March).pdf
Persistent Human Dimensions of Poverty
1. Author: Jon Dunnemann
Persistent Human Dimensions of Poverty
● Deteriorating housing, living conditions, and homelessness
● Housing discrimination, zoning restrictions, and land use regulations
● Lack of hot water, heat, and electricity
● Insufficient nutritional intake
● Common infectious diseases, rodents, and other vermin
● Sustained neurobiological stress and dis-ease
● Absenteeism, tardiness, and lack of focus
● Juvenile delinquency
● Drug use, distribution, and addiction
● Promiscuity, sexually transmitted disease, and unwed motherhood
● Infant mortality
● Pandemic violence and gangs
● Homicide
● Suicide
● Overcrowding
● Inadequate education
● Not living with both parents
● Lack of motivation
● Poor self-image
● Police brutality, excessive court fees and fines, sentencing bias, and mass incarceration
● Criminalizing, decivilizing, and demonizing poor neighborhoods
● State services, overextended and direly short of means
● Unrealistic aspirations
● Menial and low paying jobs
● Semi-skilled work and labor
● Poor educational achievement and unemployment
● Declining local institutions (businesses, churches, neighborhood associations, and public services)
● Limited informal contacts and other resources
● Despair, apathy, and frustration
● Hopelessness, anger, and self-defeat
● Stigmatization, marginalization, and victimization
● Failure to make steady progress towards life betterment