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

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 4 th 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_ho me.html http://www.corndancer.com/fritze/reformation2/refmaton2_ho me.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