Redefining Success and Achievement
What is intelligence not?
An innate ability or immutable quality.
Culture is not just what you do, but who you...
are
What do after-school programs support?
1. Keeping on track
2.Shielding against peer pressure
3. Developing critical thinking and leadership skills
4. Creating a sense of belonging
What are the two major ideas that create success within the intertwined roles of family, community, and school?
1. The crucial role of family
2. Teachers, schools, and caring
What is the goal of academics? Not a characteristic.
Being Smart
What is an example of symbolic violence?
Specific culture missing from curriculum.
What do the arts support?
Developing rich multicultural student expression.
What becomes a liability if the school does not provide alternative means for student learning through structures such as bilingual programs and homework centers?
Parents' inability to speak English
What is a major indicator of academic success?
Grades
What is selective acculturation?
The process by which children of immigrant backgrounds acculturate to the host society in a measured and careful way, while at the same time maintaining ties with their ethnic communities.
Being involved in extracurriculars allows students to defend themselves from what?
Negative peer pressure
What can teachers and other educators learn from the experiences of the students in the case studies and snapshots?
1. Educators role in relation to their students can make a difference in the lives of students.
2. When students feel connected to school, they identify as learners
3. There are many ways to show caring through accepting students' differences, practicing asset-based pedagogy, and maintaining rigorous and high expectations
What four things mediate what students consider realistic goals for their future?
Culture, language, social class, and gender.
What concept does K.C. Nat Turner advance? It allowed students to express themselves, understand the world in which they live, are entertained, and defend themselves.
Multimodal media Production (MMP)
What does Joshi argue needs to be recognized as a form of social identity?
Why would some parents not attend school meetings or functions?
Because some did not speak English, that they themselves had not always had positive experiences in schools, and that they were inhibited by the impersonal and unreceptive nature of some schools.
What did Yahaira say the reason for going to school is?
"The reason for going to school is to educate your mind."
What is contested by both research and by the case studies and snapshots?
What do young people seek, which they can achieve through extracurricular activities?
Belonging
What is the most important characteristic students looked for in their teachers?
Caring