Definition of Curriculum
Curriculum Goals
Multicultural Education
Standards Movement
Chapter Definitions
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What is Curriculum?
What is taught in school.
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How many questions are included in the "Tyler rationale?"
What is 4.
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What is multicultural education?
What is curriculum that embraces and incorporates the wide spectrum of human variations, such as those that exist with ethnicity, gender, religion, and physical and mental abilities, into its core content.
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What year was the Goals 2000: Educate America Act expected to be met by?
What is 2000
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Areas of study, such as mathematics, science, or English, that can be divided into subdisciplines, such as algebra, physics, and literature.
What is academic disciplines.
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How many components make up curriculum?
What is 3.
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Which of the approaches to curriculum teaches the traditional academic subjects?
What is Humanists
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What is teachings from different cultures known as?
What is content integration.
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Were the goals for "Goals 2000" met?
What is no.
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Underlying beliefs that are themselves part of a culture and that influence how a culture behaves and reacts to certain populations or behaviors.
What is cultural assumptions.
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What is the component of curriculum that actually happens in the classroom?
What is enacted curriculum.
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Social Meliorists is the curriculum that should prepare the students who could create a more democratic social order, what is this approach also known as?
What is Social Constructionists
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What is one way to integrate multicultural education into the curriculum?
What is teaching stories from different cultures, continuing the practice outside the classroom, inviting guest speakers, etc.
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What was the high school graduation rate suppose to meet by the year 2000?
What is at least 90%.
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A push to make educational institutions and sometimes individual teachers and students accountable for students' academic performance; often measured by means of standardized testing and evaluations.
What is standards movement.
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What is planned curriculum?
What is what the teacher designs for a specific lesson based on the subject.
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Name the four approaches to curriculum.
What is humanists, developmentalists, social efficiency educators, and social meliorists or social constructionists.
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What are some cultural assumptions discussed in the knowledge construction process of multicultural education?
What is gender biased careers (male scientists) and race/ethnicity (presidents)
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What term is defined by the ability of local school districts, state governments, or even individual schools and classroom teacher to retain control over laws and policies affecting their citizens.
What is Local Autonomy.
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Privileges and benefits are dispersed according to a socially constructed value system wherein some people and groups are considered subordinate to those that are more elite or entitled.
What is stratified society.
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What is participatory relationship?
What is the written curriculum, which is enforced by a higher authority and then the teacher either decides to or is told to teach the curriculum.
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Name the three types of curriculum and define them.
What is official curriculum- what is expected to be taught by the teachers, taught curriculum- what the teacher actually teaches, hidden curriculum- effectively taught lessons that are not acknowledged in the school.
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Name three out of the five area's of importance in multicultural education.
What is content integration, the knowledge construction process, prejudice reduction, an equity pedagogy, and an empowering school culture.
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Why do the standards from the state tests cause the teachers to view them as impossible barriers?
What is because it takes the freedom out of the teachers teaching, they have to follow the curriculum that the state tests are based off of.
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Widespread public or professional movements based on new theories, data, beliefs, or strategies meant to change the education system for the better. Goals often address the development of better-achieving students or cost reduction in schools.
What is education reform movement.
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