Chapter 2 Flashcards
(23 cards)
Assimilation
The process of acquiring a culture; a child’s acquisition of the cultural heritage through both formal and informal educational means.
Bilingual Education
Educational programs in which students of limited or no English-speaking ability attend classes taught in English,as well as in their native language.
Cultural Difference Theory
A theory that asserts that academic problems can be overcome if educators study and mediate the cultural gap separating school and home.
Culturally Responsive Teaching
An approach to multicultural education that recognizes that students learn in different ways,and that effective teaches recognize and respond to those differences.
Cultural Pluralism
Acceptance and encouragement of cultural diversity
Cultural
A set of learned beliefs,values,and behaviors; a way of life shared by members of a society.
Deficit Theory
A theory that asserts that the values,languages patterns,and behaviors that children from certain racial and ethic groups bring to school put them at an educational disadvantage.
Demographic Forecasting
The study and predictions of people and their vital statistics.
English as a second Language (ELL)
An immersion approach to bilingual education that removes students from the regular classroom to provide instructions in English.
English Language Learners
Students whose native language is not English and are learning to speak and write English
Ethnicity
A term that refers to shared common cultural traits such as language,religion,and dress.A Latino or Hispanic for example belongs to an ethic group but might belong the black Caucasian or Asian race.
Expectation Theory
First made popular by Rosenthal and Jacobson, A theory that holds a student’s academic performance can be improved if a teachers attitude and beliefs about that student’s academic potential are modified.
Generalization
Broad statements about a group that offer information clues and insights that can help a teacher plan more effectively.
Immersion
A bilingual education model that teaches students with limited English by using a ‘‘sheltered’’ or simplified English vocabulary,but teaching in English and not in the other language.
Language Submersion
A bilingual education model that teaches students in classes where only English is spoken,the teacher does not know the language of the students,and the student either learns English as the academic work progresses or pays the consequences.This has been called ‘‘sink or swim’‘approach.
Maintenance approach
A bilingual model that emphasizes the importance of acquiring English while maintaining competence in the native language.
multicultural education
Educational practice that identify and affirm human differences and similarities related to gender,race,ethnicity,nationality,disability,and class.
Multicultural education additive approach
Add content,concepts and themes for a fixed period of time but do not change structure of curriculum,
Multicultural education contributions approach
focuses on heroes,holidays,and discreet cultural elements,
Multicultural education social action approach
Students makes decisions about important social issues and take steps to changes them
Multicultural education transformation approach
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Changing the structure of curriculum so that students studying events from perspective of diverse ethic/cultural groups.
Reflective teaching
An approach to teaching that promotes thoughtful consideration and dialogue about classrooms events
Ruby Payne’s A framework for understanding poverty
A book that deals heavily with the concept of ‘‘hidden rules’‘characteristics that member of one of the three main social classes posses.that make communicating and relating to members of the other classes difficult.
