Chapter 6 Vocabulary

Question 1

Assimilation (Enculturation)

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Bilingual Education

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Cultural Difference Theory

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Culturally Responsive Teaching

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Cultural Pluralism

Answer 5

Acceptance and encouragement of cultural diversity

Question 6

Culture

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Deficit Theory

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Demographic Forecasting

Answer 8

The study and predictions of people and the vital statistics

Question 9

English As A Second Language

Answer 9

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

Question 10

English Language Learners

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Ethnicity

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Expectation Theory

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Generalizations

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Immersion

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Language Submersion

Answer 15

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 the “ sink or swim” approach

Question 16

Maintenance (development) approach

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Multicultural Education

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Multicultural Education Additive Approach

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Multicultural Education Contributions Approach

Answer 19

Focuses on heroes, holidays, and discreet cultural elements

Question 20

Multicultural Education Social Action Approach

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Multicultural Education Transformation Approach

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Reflective Teaching

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Ruby Payne’s A Framework for Understanding Poverty

Answer 23

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