HK 32600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Government Issue, Railways Act 1921

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Health and Kinesiology
• Course: HK 32600
• Professor: Carole Dehaven

Document Summary

Chapter #2 teaching a diversity of learners. Social-cultural competency: refers to a teacher"s ability and willingness to work effectively and justly in cross-cultural situations. Ethnicity: refers to the culture heritage of a particular group of people. Ethnic group: category of people viewed as socially distinct because they share a way of life and allegiance to the ideas, norms, and material things that constitute that way of life. *student diversity comprises numerous socially constructed variables associated with ethnicity, race, gender, culture, sexuality, and sexual orientation, ability/disability status. *central problem with notions of ethnicity is their indefinite sociological meaning: social category of ethnic" and the idea of ethnicity as a casual presence do not meet the ordinary sociological requirements of logical consistency and coherence. Race: social construct commonly used to identify and categorize individuals based mostly on visible biological features. More socially constructed human grouping system vs. genetically based human condition.