ECE 132 Midterm Flashcards
What is culture?
The ways and manners people use to see, perceive, represent, interpret, and assign value and meaning to the reality they live or experience
What is included in culture?
environment actions towards family, people Labels (on you and that you give to others) Set of rules for behavior Give identity (group and self)
What is material culture?
(Visual) Language - accents Dress Personal decorations - jewelry, tattoos Food/eating Music Home decorations/buildings
What is non-material culture?
(invisible) Ideas Beliefs Values Feeling and emotions
What are the 8 family models?
- Nuclear/Intact family
- Extended family
- Single-parent family
- Blended family
- Kinship family
- Same-sex family
- Adoptive family
- Foster family
Describe a nuclear/intact family
2 parent household with kids (biological, adoptive)
Describe an extended family
Family that may include some or all: aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc.
Describe a blended family
yours, mine, ours
“Brady bunch”
Consists of 2+ families coming together to make one
Describe a kinship family
Where a family member other than the parents (aunt, grandma, etc) takes care of the children
Describe a same-sex family
Family headed by two females or two males
Describe an adoptive family
Where the parent has legally adopted the child and is not the child’s biological parent
Describe a foster family
Provides temporarily for the needs of the child
5 elements of diversity
Age Gender Sexual Orientation Economic Class Physical Abilities/Characteristics Race/ethnicity
4 visions of ABE
- All children are able to blossom
- All children have a sense of belonging
- All children have access to participate in education
- All families have the resources they need to fully nurture their children
4 Goals for ABE (#1)
Each child will demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride, and positive social identities
4 Goals of ABE (#2)
Each child will express comfort and joy with human diversity; accurate language for human differences; and deep, caring human connections
4 Goals of ABE (#3)
Each child will increasingly recognize unfairness, have language to describe unfairness, and demonstrate that unfairness hurts
4 Goals of ABE (#4)
Each child will demonstrate empowerment and the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discriminatory actions
Guideline for Culture
Culture norms
- roles for boys and girls
- attitudes towards strangers
- what is appropriate dress for students
- behavior between boys and girls
- child rearing practices
- rites of passage
- marriage ceremonies
- meaning of death and ways of dealing with it
