Chapter 6 Flashcards
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a process of comprehensive school reform and basic education for all students. It challenges and rejects racism and other forms of discrimination in schools and society and accepts and affirms the pluralism (ethnic, racial, linguistic, religious, economic, and gender, among others) that students, their communities, and their teachers reflect.
Multicultural Education
James Banks (2014) suggests that multicultural education has five dimensions:
content
integration
the knowledge construction process
prejudice reduction
an empowering school culture and social structure
equity pedagogy
Using examples and content from a variety of cultures and groups to illustrate key concepts, principles, generalizatons, and unicores in their subject area or discipline.
Content integration
Matching teaching styles to students’ learning styles in order to facilitate the academic achievement of students from diverse racial, cultural, and social dass groups.
An Equity Pedagogy
Examining group and labeling practices, sports participation, and the interaction of the staff and the students across ethnic and racial lines to create a school culture that empowers students from all groups.
An Empowering School Culture and Social Structure
Identifying the characteristics of students’ racial attitudes and determining how they can be modified by teaching
Prejudice Reduction
heroing stucents to understand now the implicit cultural assumptions within a discipline influence the ways that knowledge is constructed within it.
The knowledge construction process
This term is used to describe a similar approach
that uses the “cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of ethnically diverse students to make learning encounters more relevant to and effective for them. It teaches to and through the strengths of these students. It is culturally validating and affirming”
Culturally responsive teaching
uses the term culturally responsive teaching to describe a similar approach that uses the “cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of ethnically diverse students to make learning encounters more relevant to and effective for them.
Geneva Gay
Students who seem able to thrive in spite of serious challenges are actively engaged in school. They have good interpersonal skills, confidence in their own ability to learn, positive attitudes toward school, pride in their ethnicity, and high expectations
Resilient Students
You can’t choose personalities or parents for your students. And if you could, stresses can build up for even the most resilient students. at we have to change classrooms instead of kids because “alternative strategies will be more enduring and most successful when they are integrated into naturally occurring systems of support [like schools] that surround children”
Resilient Classrooms
is not destiny. Just knowing a student is a member of a particular cultural group does not define what that student is like. People are individuals.
Group membership
Both Asian and Asian – Americans a model students, hard-working, and passive. Acting on these can reinforce conformity and Stiffel assertiveness.
Stereotyping
One of the most meaningful cultural dimensions in peoples lives, those scene researchers have great difficulty defining this.
Social class
he least popular group. Most of them live in the slums. Grits smoke, do drugs, dress grungy. They have those hick accents and they usually get bad grades.
Grits
Sociologists and psychologists combine variations in wealth, power, control over resources, and prestige into an index and they call it ?
Socioeconomic Status
usually ascribed to people by researchers. Most researchers identify four general levels of SES:
Upper, middle, working, lower
Homeless and Highly Mobile Student
Extreme poverty
Como very often or an additional risk for a range of physical, social, and learning difficulties.
Student who sre homeless
Contribute to chronic risks of problems in school, problems are difficult to overcome.
Homelessness and high mobility
Have less access to good prenatal and infant healthcare and nutrition.
Families in poverty
Are more likely to be exposed to drugs. And are four times a likely to experience stress due to eviction., lack of food, overcrowding, for utility disconnect.
Children in poverty
is harmful and should be eliminated. Few early, well done, and carefully designed studies found that this increases the gapbetween high and low achievers by depressing the achievement of low-track students and boosting the achievement of high-track students
Tracking
may be harmful for some students some of the time. First, as most people agree, this seems to have positive effects for the high-track students. Programs for students with gifts and talents, honors classes, and Advanced Placement (AP) classes seem to work
Tracking
