ELPS 303: TERMS
Dr. Rosalind Latiner Raby

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Many of these terms are not defined so that each learner

can build their own frame of reference for new concepts

CULTURE TERMS

ACCULTURATION: Process of choosing to learn cultural change or learn another culture

CASTE

CLASSIFICATION

CULTURE

DIFFUSION

EMIC

ETHNIC GROUP

ETHNICITY

ETHNOCENTRISM

ETIC

GENERALIZATION: Result of the process of drawing conclusions about an entire class or group based on samples; generalizations indicate certain group characteristics without implying that every member -of the class or group has the same traits

IDEALS

IMMIGRANT GROUP

INCULTURATION: Process of learning another culture when there is no choice but to learn it.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETENCY: Knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary for effective communication with members of different cultural groups

MACRO

MARGINALIZATION

MELTING POT IDEAL: View according to which ethnic differences that were melted" into a single "pot" would produce a synthesis-a new homogeneous and superior culture

MICRO

MIGRATION

MINORITY GROUP

MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION: Process by which individuals can develop a critical understanding of their own cultures and those of others, thus becoming more effective decision makers

NATIONAL CHARACTER STUDIES

NEW MAJORITY

PARADIGMS

RACE

SOCIALIZATION

STEREOTYPE: Erroneous manner of thinking in which group characteristics are assumed to be possessed by all members of the group

STEREOTYPING

VALUE ORIENTATIONS

VALUES

SOCIALIZATION TERMS

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

AGE-STAGE LINKAGE: Mistaken belief that children's ages are necessarily connected with certain stages (e.g., all adolescents are . . . all 5 year old can do . . . )

ASSIMILATION

COMPENSATORY EDUCATION: Means of helping educationally disadvantaged children of poor and ethnic minorities to acquire necessary cognitive, academic and social skills.

CONTINUITY/DISCONTINUITY

CULTURAL DEPRIVATION: Belief that families who are culturally different or poor are unable to provide their children with adequate language, perceptual, and other cognitive experiences to succeed in school and in modern society

DEFICIT MODEL: Notion that what is different is inferior or pathological in nature (e.g., African American dialect may be viewed as inferior to Standard English; children may be seen as inferior or inadequate adults)

FORMAL EDUCATION

GLOBAL EDUCATION

HIDDEN CURRICULUM: Indirect means of teaching norms and values without explicitly stating what is being taught

INFORMAL EDUCATION

MICRO SOCIAL CHANGE

NONFORMAL EDUCATION

PSYCHOLOGICAL REDUCTIONISM THEORY

REVERSE DISCRIMINATION

SCHOOL RESTRUCTURING MOVEMENT

SCHOOL REFORM MOVEMENT

SOCIAL CHANGE THEORY

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIALIZING AGENTS

STAGES OF MULTICULTURAL PROCESS

INTERCULTURAL TERMS

CULTURAL CONFLICT

CULTURAL RELATIVITY

ETHICAL COMMUNICATION

ETHNOCENTRISM

HUMAN CAPITAL THEORY

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION PATTERNS

PREJUDICE

STEREOTYPE

BILINGUAL TERMS

ACTION-ORIENTED CURRICULUM

BILINGUAL EDUCATION

CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PEDAGOGY

DEFICIT THEORY

EBONICS

EQUITY 2000

ETHNOCENTRISM

PLURALISTIC CURRICULUM

POWER PEDAGOGUES

SUBMERSION APPROACH: SINK OR SWIM APPROACH

MULTICULTURAL TERMS

ACTION-ORIENTED CURRICULUM

AFROCENTRISTS

BANKS MULTICULTURAL TYPOLOGY

BAPTISTE MULTICULTURAL TYPOLOGY

CANON

CONTROL THEORY

CULTURAL LITERACY

CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PEDAGOGY

CULTURE OF POVERTY

EQUITY 2000

ETHNOCENTRISM

INTERGROUP RELATIONS TYPOLOGY

MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

PLURALISTIC CURRICULUM

POWER PEDAGOGUES

WURZEL MULTICULTURAL TYPOLOGY

MORAL EDUCATION TERMS

BELIEF SYSTEMS

CHARACTER EDUCATION

CHARACTER EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP

CIVICS TRAINING

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

ETHICS

HUMANISTIC VALUES

IDEOLOGICAL TRAINING

IDEOLOGY

LOGICAL POSITIVISM

MORAL GROWTH THEORY: Process by which children learn their moral beliefs and develop moral reasoning for making decisions regarding what is right or wrong

MORAL EDUCATION

MORALS

NEW CHARACTER EDUCATION

PERSONALISM

POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION

STAGE THEORY

UNIVERSAL MORALITY

VALUES CLARIFICATION

VALUES INCULCATION

SOCIAL CARTOGRAPHY: TRADITIONAL VIEWS - TERMS

CANON

CLASSICAL HUMANIST EDUCATION

CONFLICT/CRITICAL THEORIES

CRITICAL PEDAGOGY: View that reality is social, political, and economic defined and that knowledge comes from critical analysis of class conflicts.

DEPENDENCY THEORIES

DEPRIVATION THEORY

HUMAN CAPITAL THEORY

LEGITIMATION THEORY

LIBERAL EDUCATION

LIBERATION THEORIES

MODERNIZATION

MARXIST CONFLICT THEORY: Form of conflict theory that claims that private owners of the means of production maintain economic domination over working class by controlling the process of allocating roles, social status, and rewards; in this way, social and economic inequities are perpetuated

NEO-MARXIST THEORY: Societies perpetuate social and economic inequities and the privileged upper class maintains these inequities by controlling the lower class through non-economic means of domination; the class differences are maintained by teaching common cultures, styles of language, manners, conversational topics, values, and preferences of all kinds to the upper-class children

PARADIGM

POSTMODERNISM/POSTSTRUCTURALISM: Perspective that denies that there is an objective and real basis for knowledge and truth; postmodernist argue that there are many ways of knowing and that truth and meaning are constructed and reconstructed as societies and social structures change, insisting that the meanings that have been taken for granted should be deconstructed

PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION

PSYCHOLOGICAL REDUCTIONISM

SOCIAL CARTOGRAPHY

STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONALISM: View that the school is a microcosm of the larger society; as such, the school should reproduce and perpetuate the established social, cultural, economic, and political structures and norms and young people should be educated to function effectively in society

SOCIAL CARTOGRAPHY: 1990s VIEWS - TERMS

AGEISM: Process of stereotyping individuals based upon age and the perceived deficits that accompany aging

CULTURAL REVIVAL THEORIES

DECONSTRUCTION

ECO-FEMINIST

FEMINIST

MACRO

META-NARRATIVES

MICRO

MODERNIST

PHENOMENOLOGICAL

POSITIONALITY

POSTMODERNISM

SEXISM: Discrimination based on culturally assigned gender roles

UTOPIAN THEORIES

WORLD SYSTEMS THEORY

SOCIAL CHANGE: NATIONAL ROLES - TERMS

NATIONAL CURRICULUM

NATIONAL EXAMS

NATIONAL TEACHER CORPS

PRIVATIZATION

REFORM

SCHOOL CHOICE

SOCIAL CHANGE THEORY

TEACH FOR AMERICA

VOUCHERS: Tool through which parents can apply the amount of public money a school district would receive to educate their child toward the child's tuition at a private school

SOCIAL CHANGE: INSTITUTIONAL ROLES - TERMS

CHARTER SCHOOLS: Publically funded schools that are not under the direct control of the local board of education but rather may be managed by an interest group.

EDISON PROJECT CHANNEL ONE

EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES INC.

HOME SCHOOLING

MAGNET SCHOOLS

OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION

TESSERACT WAY

YEAR-ROUND SCHOOL PROMOTING SOCIAL CHANGE:

SOCIAL CHANGE - TEACHER'S ROLES - TERMS

AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT: Process of obtaining information about students' learning activities and those things that they produce in school that reflects specific objectives that have been set for them; this approach avoids comparing individual learners with a group norm

CHILD-CENTERED EDUCATION

COGNITIVE RESEARCH

CURRICULUM REFORM

EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS

HIGHER ORDER THINKING

HOME SCHOOLING

PERSONAL VISION BUILDING

PROCESS-PRODUCT RESEARCH

PROJECT METHOD

REFLECTIVE TEACHING

TEACHER THINKING RESEARCH

INEQUALITY AND EDUCATIONAL ACCESS TERMS

APPROPRIATE TRACKING

GENDER INEQUALITY

INEQUALITY THEORIES

LAST GROUP OF ENTRY

LEARNING REVOLUTION

PAIDEIA PROPOSAL

PERSISTENT INEQUALITY

SEX-GROUPED SCHOOLING

TEACHING TO LEARNING PARADIGM

TECHNOLOGY - WAVES THEORY

TRACKING

LITERACY AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION - TERMS

COMPENSATORY COMMUNITY SERVICE

CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING

FUNCTIONAL ILLITERACY

LITERACY

OCCUPATIONAL EDUCATION

PABLO FREIRE

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION