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Multicultural Issues

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

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Multicultural Issues

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  1. Multicultural Issues Spring 2013 Freddie Bowles, Professor Aíxa García Mont, assistant

  2. Unity. Not uniformity.

  3. 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 • 3. Small group discussion

  4. Language Diversity in Arkansas

  5. Language Diversity in Arkansas

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Characteristics of culture Culture is learned behavior shared behavior adapted behavior dynamic (changing) behavior Manifested in values non-verbal patterns language

  10. 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…

  11. The majority culture Values 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

  12. 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)

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Continued • Assimilation: cultural patterns become part of dominant culture or disappear • Structural: primary group relationships are shared • Cultural pluralism: two or more groups function separately and equally • Egalitarianism: social, political, and economic rights and privileges for all people

  16. Continued • Equality: 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 own • Discrimination: denial of privileges and rewards to members of oppressed groups both individual and institutional • Stereotypes: generalizations about group without consideration of individual differences within that group

  17. Homework • ABC Who Are We? Poem • Read Chapter 3 • Bring McMenu choices and dates to class on a notecard

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