Cultural Diversity midterm Flashcards
An example of social capital is when:
you get a job based on connections you have and or who you know.
Examples of cultural capital are:
Values & Customs
Human capital, according to Rury (2020), is seen as an outcome of what?
Schooling
Racism, according to Rury (2020), is
an ideology that suggests African Americans and other groups should be seen as biologically different
Sexism is:
an ideology that believes women are inferior to men
Which of these items was a characteristic of schools in the 1700- 1800’s?
Small class sizes
The men of the Manumission Society were:
18th-century Liberals.
Common school reform can be described as a
-Compromise between the interests of wealthy and poor citizens
-Beginning effort to create a system of mass public education
-Movement often associated with Horace Mann
-All of the above
Writing in reference to the American high school in the late 19th century, Rury states the following; “The rhetoric of the high school, free and open to all, gave the appearance of a meritocratic system of performance-based evaluations, whereby the talented succeeded.” The best explanation regarding why Rury states “the appearance” of a meritocratic system here is that
high school attendance was in fact not realistic for most working-class children, even if enough attended to give the appearance of fairness
What does the feminization of teaching mean:
That teaching became seen as a uniquely female form of work.
What were the reason(s) as to why Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools for Native Americans were unable to succeed?
Rebellion on the part of Native Americans
Discrimination as practiced by many White Americans
Irish first-generation immigrants had what clear advantage that many other immigrant groups did not have?
English language
Who most strongly promoted vocational education for African Americans in the South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Booker T. Washington
What was the process of changing the social and political order of the South immediately after the Civil War?
Reconstruction
Which of the below thinkers most advocated advanced academic preparation for African Americans?
W.E.B. Dubois
Charles Hamilton Houston followed what type of educational philosophy?
Integrationist