Multicultural Education
The process of comprehensive school reform and basic education for all students.
What is multicultural education?
Naming the social, economic, political, and ideological underpinnings that influence educational structures is part of this.
This common practice in schools refers to the holding back of students based on grades and/or assessments.
What is grade retention?
Teachers using this method encourage each student to relate course content to their cultural context.
What is culturally relevant teaching?
What are Affirming Diversity and Diversity Pedagogy?
This characteristic of a multicultural education involves learning to question power structures and the status quo.
What is social justice?
Providing the same resources and opportunities for all students is an example of this.
What is equality?
Cultural & racial disparities caused by a high number of referral rates for students of color are an example of this type of practice or policy.
What are disciplinary practices or policies?
This is acquired from parents or caregivers and includes values and belief systems.
What is cultural knowledge?
Discrimination is to act on the basis of this.
What is prejudice?
The number of characteristics that Nieto names to define multicultural education.
What is seven?
This goes beyond equality and means that all students must be given the real possibility of an equality of outcomes.
What is equity?
This refers to the strategies, techniques, and approaches used by teachers in their classrooms, that is teachers' practices.
What is pedagogy?
Name one diverse element that can lead to prejudice and/or discrimination.
What is ________?
race, gender, ability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, language, religion, or age
Another term for illegal immigrant that is affirming.
This characteristic encourages critical thinking, reflection, and action.
What is critical pedagogy?
Which of the following is a task to help account for sociopolitical context of multicultural education: a) identifying diverse texts or b) examining policies and legislation.
What is b) examining policies and legislation?
This role is limited when the teacher talks and the student listens.
What is the role of students?
Cultural knowledge is acquired through this process.
What is socialization?
This teacher pedagogical behavior is defined by a class environment where students feel safe and secure on many levels.
What is a culturally safe classroom context?
Being mindful of how some students are favored over others in school policies and practices, such as the curriculum, choice of materials, sorting policies, and teachers' interactions and relationships with students and their families.
What does it mean to be antiracist or antidiscriminatory?
Name an activity that we did in class that examined the sociopolitical context of education.
What is the News Headlines activity?
This prominent educational scholar stated, "Democracy cannot flourish where the chief influences in selecting subject matter of instruction are utilitarian ends narrowly conceived for the masses, and for the higher education of the few, the traditions of a specialized cultivated class."
Who is John Dewey?
Dissonance refers to mismatch between these two things.
What are customs and beliefs from own culture with that of the classroom/teacher?
Terminologies are always changing and mirror this landscape.
What is social, economic, or political?