Definitions
Conformity
Changing your behaviour or beliefs to fit in with a group
State three hard to see cultural compornents in the cultural iceberg, that have not been mentioned in the game
Humour, attitudes toward environment, attitudes toward education, beauty ideals, aesthetics, gestures, core values, family roles
Social concept that refers to roles, behaviours, and expectations associated with being male, female, or another identity
Gender
Language, food, folklore, clothing, literature, holidays and festivals
Easy to see components of the cultural iceberg/ Things in the top of the culture iceberg
Socialization
The process in which we learn the values, rules, and behaviours of a culture so we can understand the world and act appropriately.
Cultural Glasses have a frame and a lens, and each can be described with one respective word
The frames are the action: They set the boundary of our perspective.
The Lens are the meaning: How we see and interpret the world.
The unconscious, socially learned prejudgments about people or groups that affect our thinking and behaviour
Implicit bias
Ignoring, avoiding, excluding, ridicule, jokes, slander, threats and violence
Discrimination
Stereotypes
Reduced or simplified characteristic attributed to a group
A hiring committee at an elementary school received a male applicant's resume. Members of the committee had thoughts and statements displaying prejudice because of the applicant's gender identity (that he would be a masculine role model, that he would be easily promoted, that he was gay).
Learned prejudgment socially towards others, and refers to internal thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and assumptions based on the groups to which they belong
Prejudice
Manners, work-ethic, gender roles, self-concept, thought patterns, and interpretations
Hard to see components of the cultural iceberg/ Things from the bottom of the cultural iceberg
Cultural Capital
Non-financial resources like knowledge, language skills, tastes, and behaviours that help individuals succeed in society and education
Discrimination begins as something else, before it takes action
Prejudice
Positionality
A student with a learning disability and a low socioeconomic status
Intersectionality/ an intersectional issue
Intersectionality
There are four things educators should always practice for their students to remain as unbiased as possible and have as little prejudice as possible.
Explore identity in the classroom, consider the class context, check your bias and consider your positionality, and read!
A model where people change their behaviour because they might be watched, even if no one is watching
Panopticon
A teacher labels a student as "disruptive" and the student begins to act that way
Charles H Cooley's Looking Glass Self- Our sense of self is shaped through social interactions and others' reactions.