Lesslow-Hurley - Ch. 11 - Culture, Schooling, Achievement - Vocab Flashcards
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Caste
A distinction imposed at birth to justify the inequitable social distribution of power and privilege on a group.
Cultural Capital
Endowments such as academic competence, language competence, and wealth that provide an advantage to an individual, family, or group.
Cultural Deficit
Called the deficit model that suggests ethnic minorities fail in school because their cultures are inadequate in some way.
Cultural Pluralism
he maintenance of cultures as parallel and equal to the dominant culture in a society.
Culturally Responsive Teaching
pedagogy that affirms the cultures of students, views the cultures and experiences of students as strengths, and reflects the students’ cultures in the teaching process.
Ethnocentrism
View that one’s cultural group is superior to all others.
Indigenous
population that is native to a country or region. In the U.S., Native Americans, Hawaiians, and Alaska Natives are indigenous populations.
Informal curriculum
Guides the expectations for behavior and attitudes of students. Children of immigrants are expected to learn the dominant culture. To be successful in school they are expected to communicate and behave according to the dominant culture.
Involuntary Immigrants
Immigrants who did not choose to emigrate from their native countries, but were forced to or conquered by others.
Marginalization
Relegation to the position that is not part of the mainstream or accepted by most people.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
education, the projection of the teacher’s expectations for student achievement being realized in the student’s performance in the classroom, whether or not it matches the student’s academic potential.
Social Justice
A philosophy that expects citizens to provide for those persons in society who are not as advantage as others.
Tracking
The practice of separating students based on their perceived academic abilities to receive instruction that I supposed to be most appropriate to their abilities.
