multicultural issues
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Multicultural Issues. Spring 2013 Freddie Bowles, Professor Aíxa García Mont, assistant. Unity. Not uniformity. Today’s Lesson. Goal: To establish background information about MCE; to learn about each other’s diversity and the diversity your students 1. Definitions 2. BINGO - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Multicultural Issues
Spring 2013
Freddie Bowles, Professor
Aíxa García Mont, assistant
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Unity.
Not uniformity.
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Today’s LessonGoal: To establish background
information about MCE; to learn about
each other’s diversity and the diversity
your students
1. Definitions
2. BINGO
3. Small group discussion
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Language Diversity in Arkansas
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Language Diversity in Arkansas
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Statistical Information
40 % of P-12 population are students of color
BUT
84% of teachers are European Americans
AND
75% of those are female
41% of all 4th graders have F & R lunches
14% of all students are in special programs
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How do you define “values”?
Qualities that parents find desirable and important to the education of their children.
Examples:
prestige, status, pride, family
loyalty, love of country, morality,
education, religious beliefs, honor
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What is culture?
Culture…
defines who we are
influences knowledge, beliefs, and values
provides a blueprint for behavior, feeling, and thinking
imposes order and meaning on who we are
allows us to predict how others will behave in certain situations
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Characteristics of culture
Culture islearned behaviorshared behavioradapted behaviordynamic (changing) behavior
Manifested invaluesnon-verbal patternslanguage
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Our cultural lenses
Ethnocentrism: the only lens and the right one! http://www.corndancer.com/fritze/reformation2/refmaton2_home.html
Cultural relativism: the lens as a prism--seeing the world with many facets
Multiple lenses: ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, class or SES, first language, geographic region, residence, abilities, exceptionalities…
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The majority cultureValues and practices reflected in most
Institutions (political, business, educational, social)
Privilege: unable to recognize inequality, racism, and powerlessness of anyone outside the dominant culture
Result: creates alienation in subgroups and subcultures
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Some characteristics of majority culture influences
Anglo-Saxon / Western European roots
Language (England)
Legal system (England)
Democratic ideals (France and England)
Logic (Socrates)
Individualism (Germany)
Freedom (France)
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Some values and ideologies of majority culture
Time
Money
Success measured by accumulation of goods
Control of destiny and nature
Industriousness, ambition, competition, self-reliance, independence
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How other cultures relate to majority culture
Acculturation: adoption of cultural patterns of dominant group by new or oppressed group
Consonant: Parents and children learn the language and culture in which they live at the same time
Dissonant: Children learn language and culture/parents don’t
Selective: Children learn both and still retain elements of native culture
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Continued
Assimilation: cultural patterns become part of dominant culture or disappear
Structural: primary group relationships are sharedCultural pluralism: two or more groups function separately and equallyEgalitarianism: social, political, and economic rights and privileges for all people
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ContinuedEquality: concern for group’s welfare
Inequality based on societal differences
Meritocracy: individual merit deserves greatest social and financial reward
Inequality based on individual’s differences
Prejudice: aversion to a group different from your ownDiscrimination: denial of privileges and rewards to members of oppressed groups both individual and institutionalStereotypes: generalizations about group without consideration of individual differences within that group
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Homework
ABC Who Are We? Poem
Read Chapter 3
Bring McMenu choices and dates to class on a notecard