Review and Chapter 4

1. Review and Chapter 4 Mrs. Watts Teaching Diverse Populations

2. Review Chapters 1-3 • What are some reasons for change to basic institutions: Economics, Politics, Religion, and Education?

3. Goals of this course: • Recognize social and cultural changes • Understand culture and the culture-learning process • Improve intergroup and intragroup interactions • Transmit cross-cultural understanding and skills to students.

4. Why multicultural education? • Turn and talk with a shoulder buddy: answer the question above • Multicultural education grew out of the civil rights movement of the 1960s

5. Culture • What is Objective Culture? Turn and talk with your shoulder partner.

6. Culture • What is Subjective Culture? Turn and talk with a shoulder partner

7. Culture-learning Process • What are the 12 steps of the Culture-Learning Process? • Ethnicity/Nationality • Social Class • Sex/Gender • Health • Age • Geographic Region • Sexuality • Religion • Social Status • Language • Ability/Disability • Race

8. Socializing Agents that Transmit Culture • School • House of Worship • Community • Neighborhood • Peer Group • Electronic Media • Sports • The Arts • Print Media • Workplace • Technology • Family

9. Questions to Ponder… • How might the cultures of students and teachers be similar or different? • How might teachers become better prepared for the cross-cultural differences they are certain to encounter among students?

10. Chapter 4: Classrooms and Schools as Cultural Crossroads • Student Culture: Largest percentage of people in a school community • ingroups versus outgroups Turn and talk with your shoulder buddy about ingroups and outgroupsand student culture

11. Stages of Intercultural Encounters

12. Emotional Arousal • Anxiety-encounter unexpected or unfamiliar behavior on the part of others, anxiety is likely to occur • Ambiguity-Interacting with those who are culturally different, people may often receive messages that are not quite clear, yet try to make a decision or resolve using culturally familiar behavior. (Someone learning English)

13. Continued… • Disconfirmed Expectations- Individuals become upset because situations do not go how they expect. People have a tendency to expect others to think and behave in ways similar to themselves. • Belonging/Rejection-When people are in an intercultural situation in which they find themselves uncomfortable they sometimes feel rejected or outsiders.

14. Continued… • Confronting Personal Prejudice-Aperson may be forced to acknowledge that previously held beliefs about a certain group of people or certain kinds of behaviors may be inaccurate.

15. Understanding the Cultural Basis of Unfamiliar Behavior • Communications and Language Use • Values • Rituals and Superstitions • Situational Behavior • Roles • Social Status • Time and Space • Relationship to the Group Versus the Individual

16. Making Adjustments and Reshaping Cultural Identity • Categorization-rich/poor, old/young, etc. • Differentiation • Ingroups and Outgroups • Learning Style • Attribution-judgments

17. Storytelling Time • It’s your turn…