Multicultural Education
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- Worldview is:
- The way people characteristically look at the universe. It consists of values, beliefs, and assumptions or the way a cultural group perceives other people.
- Whites accounted for what percent of the 1990 census dropout rate?
- 8.9%
- Define Stereotype. Give an example.
- exaggerated and inaccurate generaliztions used to decribe all members of a group. i.e. All Italians are in the Mafia.
- Blacks had this percentage of dropouts in the 1990 census?
- 13.6%
- The 2nd generation of japanese immigrants that were eligible to own land are called what?
- Nisei
- How are gender and the self-fulfilling prophecy related?
- They are both good predictors of success.
- Asian/Pacific Islanders had a dropout rate of what, according to the 1990 census?
- 9.6%
- What are the four types of Host Schools?
- Business As Usual, Assimilating,Plualistic Coexistant, Integrated Pluralism
- Percentage of school children who ethnic minorities.
- 25%
- Integrated Pluralism in the schools avoids what?
- Resegregation
- Define Culture:
- The aquired knowledge that people use to interpret experience and to generate behavior.
- What is Self Concept?
- A complex set of beliefs that an individual holds about themself.
- How does Pluralistic Coexistance alter schools?
- It involves the seperation of different racial or ethnic groups.
- In regards to integration define: Business as Usual
- Nothing changes...the host school remains the same as when segregated.
- What were the results of Rosanthal and Jacobson's "Pygmalion study"?
- If students are rated by teachers prior to educationg them, the teacher will trreat them differently with altered expectations.
- Concerning integration, define: Assimilation
- The new students in the school must become the majority or be resgregated.
- What conclusions were drawn from the Rist study?
- many teachers have lowered expectations for Black and Mexican students, including teachers in those groups.
- Define Cultural Pluralism.
- A process of compromise characterized by mutual appreciation and respect between two or more groups.
- Cultures that have less sense of time, space and rules are referred to as:
- High Context Cultures
- As long as there is a value placed on an individuals ability to cipher a problem in society, that individual will be valued. This is an example of what?
- Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
- The American Indian/Alaska Natives are identified as having what dropout rate in 1990?
- 44.5%
- The laws, customs and practices that systematically reflect and produce racial inequalities in American society are termed as what?
- Institutional Racism
- What is Lingua Franca?
- A common language that holds a society together.
- Cultures that have strict confimations to time and space and what is said is more important than who said it refers to:
- Low Context Cultures
- Who is responsible in the Difference Arguement?..Why?
- The school is responsible because of monocultural education. Students may be forced to learn in a different culture than they live in at home.
- What is Cultural Assimimilation?
- processes in which people of divers ethnic and racial backgrounds come to interact, free of constraints, in the life of the larger community.
- Explain the Deficit Arguemant.
- The poverty child is failing in school because they are not ready for school. The home is to blame for retarding develoment.
- What do the letters W.A.S.P. stand for?
- White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
- According to the 1990 Census, what percent of Hispanics were dropouts?
- 35.3%
- According to Longstreet, what is Scholastic Ethnicity?
- School Culture
- Monochronic or "white time" is desribed as what?
- process in which things are accomplished one at a time in a linear fashion.
- What is meant by the term "social values"?
- How an individual or group should or should not behave, or about some end of state of existance worth or not worth attaining.
- Polychronic or "black time" can best be described as what?
- a process in which schedules are invisible and many events occur at the same time.
- What percentage of Human Communication is non-verbal?
- 50%-90%