Cultural Diversity midterm

Question 1

An example of social capital is when:

Answer 1

you get a job based on connections you have and or who you know.

Question 2

Examples of cultural capital are:

Answer 2

Values & Customs

Question 3

Human capital, according to Rury (2020), is seen as an outcome of what?

Answer 3

Schooling

Question 4

Racism, according to Rury (2020), is

Answer 4

an ideology that suggests African Americans and other groups should be seen as biologically different

Question 5

Sexism is:

Answer 5

an ideology that believes women are inferior to men

Question 6

Which of these items was a characteristic of schools in the 1700- 1800’s?

Answer 6

Small class sizes

Question 7

The men of the Manumission Society were:

Answer 7

18th-century Liberals.

Question 8

Common school reform can be described as a

Answer 8

-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

Question 9

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

Answer 9

high school attendance was in fact not realistic for most working-class children, even if enough attended to give the appearance of fairness

Question 10

What does the feminization of teaching mean:

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That teaching became seen as a uniquely female form of work.

Question 11

What were the reason(s) as to why Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools for Native Americans were unable to succeed?

Answer 11

Rebellion on the part of Native Americans
Discrimination as practiced by many White Americans

Question 12

Irish first-generation immigrants had what clear advantage that many other immigrant groups did not have?

Answer 12

English language

Question 13

Who most strongly promoted vocational education for African Americans in the South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

Answer 13

Booker T. Washington

Question 14

What was the process of changing the social and political order of the South immediately after the Civil War?

Answer 14

Reconstruction

Question 15

Which of the below thinkers most advocated advanced academic preparation for African Americans?

Answer 15

W.E.B. Dubois

Question 16

Charles Hamilton Houston followed what type of educational philosophy?

Answer 16

Integrationist

Question 17

John Dewey believed education to be a process of interactions between the:

Answer 17

child and the curriculum, and between school and society

Question 18

Pedagogical Progressives see schools as:

Answer 18

a vehicle for overcoming social problems

Question 19

Administrative Progressives are concerned with:

Answer 19

Accommodating the needs of the economy.

Question 20

The men of Jefferson’s time were roughly divided into two worldviews, Jefferson and his allies were:

Answer 20

Classical Liberals

Question 21

The Progressive Era educational leaders who believed in a humanitarian disposition toward making education more responsive to the needs of children, and integrating the school more closely with its immediate community is referred to as

Answer 21

Pedagogical Progressive

Question 22

The Progressive Era educational leaders who believed in efficiency and carefully aligned the purposes of schooling with the needs of the economy is referred to as

Answer 22

Administrative Progressive

Question 23

A Pedagogical Progressive who felt that school was a refuge from the ravages of the factory and commercial life, and was rather a place to learn essential values of democracy and principles of reasoning was

Answer 23

John Dewey

Question 24

A pragmatist, according to the Gutek reading, would see ideas

Answer 24

as “instruments”, to be devised, acted on, and tested

Question 25

John Dewey’s Laboratory School

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provided an atmosphere wherein children learned collaboratively by working together to solve problems.

Question 26

The Doctrine of Progress was carried forward by:

Answer 26

19th Century Science & Philosophy.

Question 27

What model of education was transferred to Africa’s Gold Coast?

Answer 27

Hampton-Tuskegee

Question 28

Why was this era (1890-1920) called “Progressive”?

Answer 28

Because of all the reform activities

Question 29

Differentiation means:

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Greater specialization in the production of goods & services.

Question 30

Cultural Hegemony means:

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The dominance of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture of that society

Question 31

The U.S. experiences of the Great Depression as well as the Second World War

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caused many to question existing ideas regarding social superiority, particularly regarding race and social class

Question 32

The 1954 decision of Brown v. Board of Education was aimed

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mainly at de jure segregation

Question 33

The conservative attack against progressive education in the 1950s was motivated by

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-fears that American schools were falling behind in mathematics and the sciences, particularly in light of the Soviet 1957 launch of the Sputnik spacecraft
-concern due to the climate of the “Cold War” and that progressive educators were left-leaning and thus susceptible to communist influence

Question 34

By the 1960s, racial segregation in major metropolitan areas was maintained by

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violence
restrictive deed covenants
“red-lining” mortgage-lending practices

Question 35

The major objection to using the term “culturally deprived” to describe poor and minority residents of the inner city was that it implied that

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such residents lacked certain values and productive habits, and needed to imitate White middle class conventions

Question 36

“Separate but Equal” means?

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Not sitting beside each other on a train, bus, or classroom, but having access to them separately.

Question 37

Plessy v. Ferguson held that racially segregated public facilities were legal
so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal, this is also known as what doctrine?

Answer 37

Separate but Equal

Question 38

Mendez v. Westminster (1947) is a case where Mexican Americans challenged what state’s segregated school policies?

Answer 38

California

Question 39

Separate but equal educational facilities for racial minorities was found to be inherently
unequal because it violated what Amendment?

Answer 39

14th

Question 40

An example of “White Flight” is seen when:

Answer 40

Whites move out of a neighborhood when People Of Color (POC) move in