Test #5 Culture Flashcards
(128 cards)
Lev Vygotsky
psycologist - beleive children develope thinking and cogniztive skills while ebing guided by experts in soliving probelms together
Beleived that adults and culture shape children’s learning
Deaf teachers and Deaf parents
Deaf teachers and Deaf parents prvide language and cultural role modeling for Deaf students –> guides them in how to integrate both the deaf and cultural worlds
- ALSO halpe deaf chidlren translate their gesturs and ASL into english
Disciplining Deaf students
At school whena. crisis occurs (Such as a teen acting out) a Deaf teacher or staff memeber is pulled in to dioscipline the deaf student because often the deaf stduent is able to connect or communicate with the deaf teacher or staff member
Deaf people controlling education
Deaf people have not bee allowed to take control of their education (escpecially early childhood)
Role of deaf teachers
Help by setting up visual learning envirnments +
ALSO incorporating elements of deaf culture AND open chanels of langauge, reading, and academic learning to develope foundations of thinkning, cognition, and learing
Auditory and visual learning
Teachers can provide visual and auditory learning to support students by providing scafolding
- Deaf learners may be more dependnet on vision than hearing peers BUT some may have residual hearing that is supported by cochlear implants or hearing aids
Use of IQ tests
IQ tests - used to evaluate and plan for educational, vocational, and mental health services
History of deaf intelligence
Past - deaf people were thought to have less inteligence compared to hearing + though deaf people were conctrete thinkers rather than abstract thinkers
NOW - know that Inteligence is normally distrbuted in deaf population AND that wurg ASL you can express contcrete and abstract ideas
Concrete thinkers Vs. Abstract thinkers
Concrete thinkers - Experince the world through familiar objects and evenets
Abstract thinkers - Find principles in recurring events and solve probelms
Deaf people performance on IQ Tests
Deaf people prefrom the same as hearing people on tests of nonverbal intelogence BUT score lower on English-lanaguge based tests
***Deaf people = given english-language based IQ tests for many years –> Some deaf people were disdiasgnosed as Mentally retsraded, autistic, mentally ill and placed in inapprproate facilities
Junius Wilson
Deaf man –> was in mental hospital and prison for 6 years BUT he was never decleared insane or found guilty of any crime
- In mental hospital and prison withought being gievn apprpriate tests or accomidations
Understanding relationship between thought and language
Understanding this relationship helps us understand deaf people better because many deaf people grow up in deprived language envirnments
Developing thinkning skills
Deaf children develop thinkning skills as they experince their world through the senses
When learn lnaguage - children label their expeirnces and concepts, reorgiznate them into new patterns, and talk about them
Expressing thought
Language is not the only way to express thought
Chidlren can use langauage to form new thoughts without having the expeirnces with real objects and events
Lanauage provides kids with a system to encode + organize + remeber their expeirnces
Use of language for kids
With langauge they can tranlsate thoughts and ideas into speech + signs + getures + written symbols AND can share these with others
Development of cognitive skills
With their language skills kids can develope more cognitive skills BUT some forms of cognitive organziation and thinkning do not need language
***Deaf children who have no lanaguage are able to invent their won systems of gestures to express themsleves
Cycle of thinkning and language
We develop thinkning skills and label ideas with lanaguge THEN thinkning and language interact to create more thinkning and language
MEANS - important for deaf children to have early access to lanaguage - without language they cannot develop thinning and social skills to maximum potential
Thinking and language development in hearing kids
For hearing kids - thinikniong and lanaguge are first developed within the family circle THEN family circle widens to school communities and culture
Deaf children raised as bicultural people
Deaf children raised biculturally benefit from both families - including hearing families and deaf culture community – both provide support for thinkning + socilization + langauge development
Thinkning skills and cognitive abilities
Thinkning skills are part of a broader set of cognitive abilities
Cognitive abilities = visual attention + imagery + visual-spatial skills + memory + learning + metacognition
Deaf peolpe using ASL
Deaf people may use ASL to think + learn + remeber BUT ASL is not the only factor in development of cignitive abilities
- Backgroun + World knowldge + home/school expeirnces + language/commucation modes + lerning stradegies plat a role in development of cognitive abilities
How do deaf people think + learn + remeber
Deaf people use eyes to think + learn + remeber
How does deaf culture affect visual learning
Deaf people have similar values and behaviors that reflect their deaf cultural ways of learing through visual expeinces (different from learning through hearing)
Simon’s study (Study of deaf culture in an urban american deaf Community)
Elaborates on visual learning - writes that visual retertoire is one of the most fundemental characteristics of Deaf culture
- Visual repertoire - means that deaf people use vision in face-face communication through ASL and otehr sign communication + use visual technology devices + use reading + use writting
Ex - deaf people use smartphones to text and videophones