Chapter 6- Immigrant Education

Question 1

socioeconomic status

Answer 1

relative standing in the society based on income, power, background, and prestige, no single variable is an effective measure of SES

Question 2

resistance culture

Answer 2

group values and beliefs about refusing to adopt the behaviours and attitudes of the majority culture

Question 3

tracking

Answer 3

assignment to different classes and academic experiences based on achievement

Question 4

prejudice

Answer 4

prejudgement, or irrational generalizations about an entire category of people

Question 5

stereotype

Answer 5

schema that organizes knowledge or perceptions of a category

Question 6

stereotype threat

Answer 6

the extra emotional and cognitive burned that one’s performance in an academic situation might confirm a stereotype that others hold

Question 7

gender identity

Answer 7

the sense of self as male or female as well as the beliefs one has about gender roles and attributes

Question 8

gender schemas

Answer 8

organized cognitive structures that include gender-related information that influences how children think and behave

Question 9

resilience

Answer 9

the ability the adapt successfully in spite of difficult circumstances and threats to development, resilient students have good interpersonal skills, confidence in their own ability to learn, positive attitudes toward school, pride in their ethnicity, and high expectations, resilient classrooms have both self-agency and connected relationships

Question 10

gender role behaviour

Answer 10

those behaviours and characteristics that the culture associates with each gender, expectations about how males and females should behave