What is the term for viewing people without acknowledging their skin colour or ethnicity?
100
The name of the individual who proclaimed Canada a multicultural bilingual country?
What/who is Pierre Elliot Trudeau?
100
What we teach without intending to.
What is the hidden curriculum?
100
Many teachers will not implement MC or critical educational approaches because they are unaware of the marginalization that is happening for their diverse students.
What is ignorance or limited knowledge of the role of ethnicity in education?
100
Feasts and Festivals, or Samosas and Saris, or Heroes and Holidays.
What is a common nickname for superficial MC education practices? Or, what must we seek to exceed in implementing MC Ed?
200
Social Justice
What is a movement or set of beliefs that propose that education must be reformed to reduce injustice and increase opportunity for students from marginalized or discriminated populations?
200
The social, political and psychological disempowerment of our First Nations people on a systemic level, involving all aspects of their lives.
What are the assimilative (or colonialist) policies in Canada?
200
A long standing, never-to-be resolved question or opposition in sociology, that questions where the real power lies in determining each of our lives.
What is "Structuralism (or Structural Functionalism) vs Individual Agency"?
200
Schools, or school administrators, may not encourage questioning and change, and may want to continue with their tried-and-true methods.
What is orthodoxy, or old school approaches?
200
This is an approach to MC Ed that involves overtly discussing or acknowledging racism (or other aspects of racial discrimination) as a marginalizing factor.
What is anti-racist education?
300
An example of a multicultural setting in which we might teach.
What is every classroom?
300
Canada's immigration policies prior to WW II.
What is an example of discriminatory policies or systemic discrimination?
300
It is the process that keeps the lower classes lower, and requires their unknowing consent
What is hegemony?
300
Schools offer agreed upon content and if the consideration of marginalization or racism is not within that, it will not be taught.
What is mainstream curricular content? Or, what is adherence to curricular content?
300
An approach to MC education that openly addresses the power dynamics involved in the education of marginalized populations.
What is critical MC education?
400
1:1 discrimination, with one person mistreating another due to assumptions about their race.
What is individual racism?
400
The knowledge, connections, and assets that one accumulates through belonging to and having connections with the desired cultural group.
What is cultural capital?
400
Recreating society in the image of the dominant group through teaching and managing children with those beliefs and values at the forefront
What is social reproduction?
400
When we take for granted that we are all equal, and you have no special access or opportunities due to your white skin.
What is white privilege?
400
The result of effective implementation of critical pedagogy.
What is praxis? (or transformative teaching?)
500
The established policies, rules and regulations that systematically reflect and produce different treatment of different races.
What is systemic racism?
500
The belief that we deserve our achievements because we worked hard for them, and anyone who wants to achieve can also work hard and achieve their dreams, regardless of their skin colour, origins, or marginalization. (hint: most believe this to be a positive thing - the American dream is an example)
What is meritocracy?
500
The presumption that one can predict behavior based on race or ethnicity, and presumptions that have been referred to as "not wrong, but incomplete" by Chimamanda Adichie.
What is stereotyping?
500
Teachers often spend so much time working alone with their students that they do not develop support networks to allow them to challenge the status quo, and they are often unaware of the potential support of others.
What is professional isolation?
500
An approach to MC education that acknowledges power dynamics and past history, but also seeks to understand world conflict and its impact on education and to foster effective co-existence of diverse groups.