Chapter 6 Vocabulary Flashcards
(23 cards)
Assimilation (Enculturation)
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 problem can be overcome if educators study and 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 teachers recognize and respond to those differences
Cultural Pluralism
Acceptance and encouragement of cultural diversity
Culture
A set of learned beliefs, values, and behaviors; A set way of life shared by members of a society
Deficit Theory
A theory that asserts the values, language patterns, and behaviors, that children from certain racial and ethic groups bring school put them at an educational disadvantage
Demographic Forecasting
The study and predictions of people and the vital statistics
English As A Second Language
An immersion approach to bilingual education that removes students from the regular classroom to provide instruction for 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 to the Black, Caucasian, or Asian race
Expectation Theory
First made popular by Rosenthal Jacobsin, a theory that holds that a student’s academic performance can be improved if a teacher’s attitude and beliefs about that student’s academic potential are modified
Generalizations
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 the other languages
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 student, and the student either learns English as the academic work progresses or pays the consequences. This has been called the “ sink or swim” approach
Maintenance (development) approach
A bilingual model that emphasis the importance of acquiring English while maintaining competence in the native language
Multicultural Education
Educational practices 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 make decisions about important social issues and take steps to change them
Multicultural Education Transformation Approach
Changing 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 (upper, middle, and lower) possesses that makes communicating and relating to members of the other classes difficult
