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Sociocultural Diversity
Multicultural Awareness Quiz
Our perceptions of reality, facts we are taught through media, education system, and other sources are often wrong
How can misinformation about issues such as race, SES, gender, etc. contribute to stereotyping?
What is your role as an educator in challenging these stereotypes?
Culture
What does culture refer to?
What is the impact of culture on teaching and learning?
Impact of Culture on Teaching and Learning
Impact of Culture on Teaching and Learning
SES
What is SES? How is it measured?
income, occupation, education, prestige
How does SES affect student achievement?
Income and Summer Learning
All students return from summer vacation with decreased academic levels of achievement. However, the decrease is greater
for low SES students.
What conditions contribute to this difference?
Is the Low Achievement of Children from low-Income Groups Inevitable?
What can teachers do to address this?
How do Ethnicity and Race Affect Students’ School Experiences?
Why Have Minority-Group Students Lagged in Achievement?
Multicultural Education
Dimensions of Multicultural Education
Multicultural Education
Values diversity and includes perspectives of a variety of cultural groups on a regular basis
What can teachers do to promote a sense of we and reduce a sense of us versus them?
Dimensions of Multicultural Education
Content integration
Knowledge construction
Prejudice reduction
Equity pedagogy
Empowering school culture
Content Integration
most common expression of MC education
Teachers supply examples & info from different ethnic, cultural groups to illustrate concepts and principles in content
areas
Varies by teacher
Which is most sophisticated level of content integration?
Including various cultural/ethnic groups to illustrate core concepts, such as inventions of Native and AA in thematic unit
on inventions
Focusing on AA experience during Black History month; honoring contributions of outstanding AA
Acknowledging the sometimes-biased representation of AA and HA on TV, empowering children to make decisions and take actions
toward solving the issues
Presenting unit on Civil War that includes voices and perspectives of landowners & poor whites, as well as slaves &
free Blacks
Prejudice Reduction
model positive attitudes/interactions with all children-particularly those who might be alienated from rest of students
committed to confronting prejudice in all its forms and at all times
create opportunities for students to interact peacefully among themselves – COOPERATIVE LEARNING
CL - proven successful in reducing prejudice among students
focus on common goal helps override emphasis on individual differences
Equity Pedagogy
encourage success for all students, regardless of race, class, ethnicity, gender
Knowledge of learning styles
Meet individual needs
Knowledge Construction
most radical, but most crucial
Five types of knowledge
Empowering School Culture
We will begin to change education so that we are empowering our students and their families to be proud, contributing members
of society both within and beyond their rich cultural boundaries!
How will you embrace diversity in your classroom?
Break?
Diversity as it relates to Gender
GENDER
What is the difference between gender and sex?
What are gender roles?
Social expectations of how males and females should act, think, feel
What are ways in which gender is socialized?
Socialization
Peers
TV
Parents
Teachers
Gender Stereotypes
What are some gender stereotypes portrayed in the United States?
How do Gender and Gender Bias Affect Students’ School Experiences?
Teachers need to be careful as to not feed into these stereotypes!
Gender-Role Classification
Masculine vs. Feminine
Androgyny
Research: Androgynous = flexible, competent, and mentally healthy
Special Concern: high masculine traits = increase in behavior problems, delinquency, drugs, aggressive, etc.
Should androgyny be taught to students?
Why or why not?
Androgynous Education
Supporters
Feel it allows equal opportunity
Critics
It ignores diversity
What role do teachers have?
What can teachers do to reduce or eliminate bias in the classroom?
Unbiased textbooks, activities, posters
Seating chart
Unbiased language
(police officer, mail carrier, firefighter)
Use "he" and "she"
Equal Attention, expectations, grades
Cooperative Learning
Structured intergroup interaction
The Class Divided Video
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