Delpit - Revised

This is an update to my post on "The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children" by Lisa Delpit.

I believe that Delpit's article relates to Ullucci's article, "Pathologizing the Poor: Implications for Preparing Teachers to Work in High-Poverty Schools." This article talks about students lives in poverty and how teachers must understand their students backgrounds in order to help them succeed in school, and their lives beyond that. Delpit connects this central idea in her five points:
1. Issues of power are enacted in the classrooms.
Ullucci's text connects to this rule because she is explaining the relationship between teacher's attitude and techniques with their students, who may come from differing backgrounds, success in school.

2. There are codes or rules for participating in power; that is, there is a "culture of power."
Ullucci talks about a "culture of poverty" (5). This culture of poverty clumps all the children together into one category without actually understanding or acknowledging the children's family culture and standards. This culture of poverty is a category where those who are not in the culture of power are placed.

3. The rules of the culture of power are a reflection of the rules of the culture of those who have power. 
Ullucci's text connects to this rule by explaining the myths. These myths were created by those who are in power. Therefore, they are a reflection of the attitudes and beliefs of those who are in the culture of power. These myths create rules that say that those is poverty are just not as hardworking as those in the culture of power - which reflects the rules of the culture of power.

4. If you are not already a participant in the culture of power, being told explicitly the rules of that culture makes acquiring power easier.
I believe that this is Ullucci's main point for writing this article. She is trying to explain to teachers that those students who come from different backgrounds do not understand the rules of the culture of power. It is the teachers job to teach these rules to their students so that they can succeed in this culture of power. Teachers have the ability to tell their students explicitly these rules in order to benefit themselves.

5. Those with power are frequently least aware of - or at least willing to acknowledge - its existence. Those with less power are often most aware of its existence.
Ullucci talks about many myths, including the "Bootstraps Myth"which believes that people in poverty can just will themselves out of poverty (6). This is not a belief of those in poverty but of those who have power. These in power are not aware of the real everyday struggles of those in poverty - they believe that those in poverty must be lazy or not care or work hard enough to release themselves from the poverty cycle.