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A way of life in which people share a
common language and similar values,
religion, ideals, habits of thinking, artistic
expressions, and patterns of social and
interpersonal relations.
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What is culture?
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A larger shared culture representing core
or dominant values of a society.
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What is a macroculture?
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Groups within cultures that share
particular values, knowledge, skills,
symbols, and perspectives.
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What are microcultures?
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The assumption that one’s own cultural
ways are the right ways and universally
appropriate to others.
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What is ethnocentrism?
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A view of diversity in which a hierarchy of
values is assumed so that members of
ethnic groups are expected to adopt
and live by the values of the dominant
culture.
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What is assimilation?
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Students whose characteristics or life
experience make them likely to fail in
school or drop out.
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What are at risk students?
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A recognition that ethnic groups make
up and contribute to a national culture
while they maintain an individual
identity.
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What is multiculturalism?
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A view of diversity in which individual
ethnic groups merge together to form a
single, shared culture.
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What is integration?
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Relative standing in society as measured
by variables such as income,
occupation, education, access to health
coverage and community resources,
and political power and prestige.
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What is socioeconomic status?
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The tacit lessons and messages taught to
students by the way teachers and
schools operate.
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What is the hidden curriculum?
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A socially constructed, complex,
dynamic, and changing construction
that is related to economic and political
factors.
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What is race?
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The assumption that students from
different cultural groups will have unique
learning styles and therefore different
learning needs.
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What is the difference model?
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The people who derive a sense of
identity from their common national
origin, religion, and sometimes physical
characteristics.
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What is an ethnic group?
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The assumption that students who are
members of ethnic minority groups are
deficient in knowledge and skills required
to contribute to the national culture.
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What is the deficit model?
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A term used to describe the cultural
characteristics of people who identify
themselves with a particular ethnic
group.
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What is ethnicity?
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A view of diversity that embraces cultural
differences.
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What is cultural pluralism?
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