Chapter 2 Vocabulary Flashcards

Learn new terms for student diversity

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Assimilation (Enculturation)

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The process of acquiring a culture; a child’s acquisition of the cultural heritage through both formal and informal educational means

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Bilingual Education

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Educational programs in which students of limited or no English-speaking ability attend classes taught in English, as well as in their native language

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Cultural Difference Theory

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A theory that asserts that academic problems can be overcome if educators study and meditate the cultural gap separating school and home

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Culturally Responsive Teaching

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An approach to multicultural education that recognizes that students learn in different ways, and that effective teachers recognize and respond to those differences

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Cultural Pluralism

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Acceptance and encouragement of cultural diversity

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Culture

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A set of learned beliefs, values, and behaviors; a way of life shared by members of a society

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Deficit Theory

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A theory that asserts that the values, language patterns, and behaviors that children from certain racial and ethnic groups bring to school put them at an educational disadvantage

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Demographic Forecasting

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The study and predictions of people and their vital statistics

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English as a Second Language (ESL)

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An immersion approach to bilingual education that removes students from the regular classroom to provide instruction in English

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English Language Learners (ELL)

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Students whose native language is not English and are learning to speak and write English

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Ethnicity

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A term that refers to shared common cultural traits such as language, religion, and dress. A Latino or Hispanic, for example, belongs to an ethnic group, but might belong to the Black, Caucasian, or Asian race

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Expectation Theory

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First made popular by Rosenthal and Jacobson, a theory that holds that a student’s academic performance can be improved if a teacher’s attitudes and beliefs about that student’s academic potential are modified

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Generalizations

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Broad statements about a group that offer information, clues, and insights that can help a teacher plan more effectively

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Immersion

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A bilingual education model that teaches students with limited English by using a “sheltered” or simplified English vocabulary, but teaching in English and not in the other language

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Language Submersion

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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 a “sink or swim” approach

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Maintenance (Developmental) Approach

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A bilingual model that emphasizes the importance of acquiring English while maintaining competence in the native language

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Multicultural Education

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Educational practices that identify and affirm human differences and similarities related to gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, and class

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Multicultural Education Additive Approach

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Add content, concepts and themes for a fixed period of time but do not change structure of curriculum

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Multicultural Education Contributions Approach

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Focuses on heroes, holidays, and discreet cultural elements

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Multicultural Education Social Action Approach

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Students make decisions about important social issues and take steps to change them

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Multicultural Education Transformation Approach

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Changing the structure of the curriculum so that students studying events from perspective of diverse ethnic/cultural groups

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Reflective Teaching

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An approach to teaching that promotes thoughtful consideration and dialogue about classroom events

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Ruby Payne’s A Framework for Understanding Poverty

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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