Aes 340 Final

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ABC's of Tatum

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Affirming Identity: students need to see themselves reflected in the environment around them

Building community: creating a sense of belonging to a larger shared community

Cultivating Leadership: requires not only the ability to speak/write, but to interact w/others in a pluralistic context

SIGNIFICANCE: Tatum's prescription to reducing prejudice, need to stay conversations about race

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Prejudice/Racism

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Prej: personal bias, preconceived judgement

Racism: to have prejudice and exercise power; system of advantage based on skin color

SIGNIFICANCE: Tatum wants to make a distinction between something that is privately and publicly practiced; not an individual act but of the structure

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Racial Identity Development

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Race is not natural/ static, it is a process continually constructed on the basis of color

Significance: Central argument in Tatum's book, uses it to explain why black kids sit together in the cafeteria

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Educacion

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Having a way of life that values respect and human integrity

SIG: Mexican kids understand schooling is not the only way to gain education --- more than schooling

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Anti-ethnic succession

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offspring are not doing any better, not reaping the benefits of their parents generation

SIG: something to explain the crisis in the education of Latinos

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Authentic vs. Aesthetic

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Auth: practice of teaching that is unconditional, deep, meaningful

Aesthetic: teaching practices that are shallow and expect something in return

SIG: makes a difference between students who care and those who don't, as according to Valenzuela

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Dual Frame of Reference

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Condition in which a student is able to look at a situation in school through a comparative lens based on the comparison (Mexico + US)

SIG: one advantage of recently immigrated students; know what they're gaining

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Empeno

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Spanish word meaning diligence, hard work

SIG: quality that immigrant students have according to Valenzuela, it's been subtracted from Chicanos

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IDEA

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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ('75), allows rights of people w/disabilities to the least restrictive environment for all kids in public school

SIG: law required all schools to give support to all students, can't ignore kids with disabilities

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Social Capital

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anything you possess that is not readily equitable to money

SIG: certain kids are at an advantage because they have an acquired family background/culture

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Cultural Deficit Model

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explanation given to kids who fail, blames it on their culture and backgrounds

SIG: Valenzuela tried to challenge this, not the culture but what is subtracted

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Cultural Inversion Theory

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explanation to describe minority kids who intentionally devalue dominant culture

SIG: explanation as to why students fail, because they intentionally fail to look good in their culture

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Agringado

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spanish word meaning "turning white" or into dominant culture

SIG: mexican immigrants tease a lot of chicanos of being this, use it as an explanation for why they fail

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Sink or Swim

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dominant way of teaching to ELL students, push them into a classroom + it's up to them to learn or not

SIG: something criticized by bilingual educators/education, they need extra help

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Horizontal Mobility

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inability to move up the socioeconomic ladder, only sideways; no improvement in status

SIG: result of subtractive schooling according to Valenzuela

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Art Gallery

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particular teaching strategy that enables people to draw from visual part of brains

SIG: kind of teaching strategy you can apply to classroom, other than lecturing and the banking system. takes it outside the classroom

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Culture of Romance

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US based practice that in a relationship, one is the server and the other is being served (females to males)

SIG: thing that brings mexican girls downwards, or upwards (depending on how you look at it)

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Dual Language Immersion Programs

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teaching of two, or more, language systems at the same time, all throughout schooling

SIG: not to value one language over another

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Affirmative Action

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educational policy that demands that all sorts of support be given to those students who are traditionally underrepresented in schools

SIG: subject of much anxiety between underrepresented + dominant culture in schools according to Tatum

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Lau vs. Nichols

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1974 court case that said you cannot make students just sink or swim, have to provide them with curriculum that should teach them how to be bilingual

SIG: an answer to sink or swim

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Seminars

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kind of teaching strategy that enables students to have an enlarged understanding of the subject matter; interpret the quote

SIG: kind of teaching strategy that you can apply in the classroom, other than lecturing

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Deliberation

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teaching strategy that requires students to make a course of action, apply what they learn

SIG: kind of teaching strategy you can apply in the classroom, other than lecturing

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Subtractive Schooling

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title and main argument in Valenzuela, in which she says certain kids fail because the cultures that could help them succeed are removed from them; they are decapitalized

SIG: instead of blaming kids, you have another way to explain why kids fail

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Mexicanidad

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kids who are from Mexico know their history and therefore identify Mexico as a central part of their cultural identity

SIG: not seen as a minority identity but a national identity, source of dual frame of reference

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Ethnography

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kind of research where the researched immerses herself with the subjects she is studying, instead of just reading about it

SIG: this is the way Valenzuela conducts her research