chapter 2 vocabulary Flashcards
(23 cards)
assimilation (enculturation)
A child’s acquisition of the cultural heritage through both formal and informal education.
Bilingual education
Educational program in which students get put in a class taught in English and they get put in a class taught in there native language.
Cultural difference theory
A theory that asserts that academic problems can be overcome if educators study
Culturally responsive teaching
An approach to multicultural education that recognizes that students learn in different ways.
Cultural pluralism
Acceptance and encouragement of cultural diversity.
Culture
A set of learned beliefs, values, and behaviors.
Deficit theory
A theory that asserts that the values, language patterns, and behaviors that children 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
An immersion approach to bilingual education that removes students from the regular classroom.
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.
Expectation theory
a theory that holds that a students academic performance can be improved if a teachers attitudes and beliefs about that students academic potential are modified.
Generalization
Broad statements about a group that offer information, clues, and insights that can help a teacher more effectively.
Immersion
a method of teaching a foreign language by the exclusive use of that language.
Language submersion
The sink or swim method to learning a second language is where you are put in a class and whatever language they are learning you either learn it or pay the consequences.
Maintenance approach
A bilingual model that emphasizes the importance of acquiring English while maintaining competence in the native language.
Multicultural education
Multicultural education refers to any form of education or teaching that incorporates the histories, texts, values, beliefs, and perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds.
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 make decisions about important social issues and take steps to change them.
Multicultural education transformation approach
change the structure of the curriculum so that students studying events from perspective of diverse ethnic/cultural groups.
Reflective teaching
An approach to teaching that promotes thoughtful consideration and dialogue about classroom events.
Ruby Payne’s A framework for understanding poverty
A book that deals heavily with the concept of “hidden rules”, characteristics that a member of one of the three main social classes possesses that makes communicating and relating to members of the other classes difficult.
