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29 Cards in this Set
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Culture
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knowledge, rules, traditions, beliefs, attitudes and values that GUIDE THE BEHAVIOUR of a group of people.
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What is SES
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social economic status. determined by several factors including wealth, prestige, power and control over resources.
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Relationship between SES and school achievement?
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moderately correlated. High-SES students show higher levels of achievement on test scores and stay longer than low-SES students. Why? Low-SES students may suffer from inadequate health care, school racking, etc.
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Socioeconomic Status(SES)
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relative standing in society based on income, power, background, and prestige
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Resistance culture
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group values and belief about refusing to adopt behaviour and attitudes of the majority culture. I REFUSE TO BELONG MY SELF TO THE MAJORITY CULTURE.
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Tracking
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assignment of individuals to different classes and academic experience/opportunities based on their achievement performance.
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Immigrants
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people who go to another country to be permanent residents
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refugees
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people fleeing for their life!
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cultural deficit model
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explains school achievement problems for minority students. How? They say that since they have to adapt to a different culture and may not be fully adapted.
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melting pot
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absorption and assimilation of immigrants into the mainstream of society so ethic differences vanishes. CONVERT EVERYONE TO MAINSTREAM. Not the goal, we want multiculturalism.
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ethnicity
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a cultural heritage shared by a group of people
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race
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group of people who share BIOLOGICAL traits that are self-defining by the people of the group
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minority group
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group of people who have been socially disadvantaged. Receives unequal or discriminator treatment.
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prejudice
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prejudgement. rigid and irrational GENERALIZATION about an entire category of people
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stereotype
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schema that organizes knowledge or perceptions of a category
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discrimination
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treating a particular group of people unfairly
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stereotype threat
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the extra emotional and cognitive burden that one's performance in an academic situation might confirm a stereotype that others hold. When we are doing a task that has an associated stereotype performance, we may conform to it. Good or bad.
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billingualism
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speaking two languages fluently
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English language learners (ELL)
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students whose primary language is not english
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English as second language (ESL)
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programs teach students English who are ELL
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code-switching
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switching between cultures in language, dialect, or non verbal behaviours to fit the situation.
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semilingual
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not proficient in any language
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gender biases
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different views of males and females. Favouring one over the other.
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multicultural education
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education that promotes equality in schooling of students despite of cultural differences
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culturally relevant pedalogy
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excellent teaching for students from visible minorities. Rest on 3 propositions. Students must experience academic success, students must develop their cultural competence (teachers use culture as a vehicle for learning, use rap to teach), students must develop critical consciousness to.
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resilience
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ability to adapt successfully in spite of difficult circumstances and threats to development. key: adapting to development no matter wat!
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sociolinguistics
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study of language within cultural groups. Formal and informal rules. "The courtesies and conventions of conversation across cultures"
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pragmatics
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rules for when and how to use language to be an effective communicator in a particular culture. Sometimes you raise hand, sometimes not.
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participant structures
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formal and informal rules for how to TAKE PART IN AN ACTIVITY
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