ECE 132 Midterm

Question 1

What is culture?

Answer 1

The ways and manners people use to see, perceive, represent, interpret, and assign value and meaning to the reality they live or experience

Question 2

What is included in culture?

Answer 2

environment
actions towards family, people
Labels (on you and that you give to others)
Set of rules for behavior
Give identity (group and self)

Question 3

What is material culture?

Answer 3

(Visual)
Language - accents
Dress
Personal decorations - jewelry, tattoos
Food/eating
Music
Home decorations/buildings

Question 4

What is non-material culture?

Answer 4

(invisible)
Ideas
Beliefs
Values
Feeling and emotions

Question 5

What are the 8 family models?

Answer 5

1. Nuclear/Intact family
2. Extended family
3. Single-parent family
4. Blended family
5. Kinship family
6. Same-sex family
7. Adoptive family
8. Foster family

Question 6

Describe a nuclear/intact family

Answer 6

2 parent household with kids (biological, adoptive)

Question 7

Describe an extended family

Answer 7

Family that may include some or all: aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc.

Question 8

Describe a blended family

Answer 8

yours, mine, ours
“Brady bunch”
Consists of 2+ families coming together to make one

Question 9

Describe a kinship family

Answer 9

Where a family member other than the parents (aunt, grandma, etc) takes care of the children

Question 10

Describe a same-sex family

Answer 10

Family headed by two females or two males

Question 11

Describe an adoptive family

Answer 11

Where the parent has legally adopted the child and is not the child’s biological parent

Question 12

Describe a foster family

Answer 12

Provides temporarily for the needs of the child

Question 13

5 elements of diversity

Answer 13

Age
Gender
Sexual Orientation
Economic Class
Physical Abilities/Characteristics
Race/ethnicity

Question 14

4 visions of ABE

Answer 14

1. All children are able to blossom
2. All children have a sense of belonging
3. All children have access to participate in education
4. All families have the resources they need to fully nurture their children

Question 15

4 Goals for ABE (#1)

Answer 15

Each child will demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride, and positive social identities

Question 16

4 Goals of ABE (#2)

Answer 16

Each child will express comfort and joy with human diversity; accurate language for human differences; and deep, caring human connections

Question 17

4 Goals of ABE (#3)

Answer 17

Each child will increasingly recognize unfairness, have language to describe unfairness, and demonstrate that unfairness hurts

Question 18

4 Goals of ABE (#4)

Answer 18

Each child will demonstrate empowerment and the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discriminatory actions

Question 19

Guideline for Culture

Answer 19

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