EDFD177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Truancy, Personal Knowledge Base, Mixed-Sex Education

EDFD177 Lecture Notes Friday May 11, 2018
Contexts for Promoting Ethnicity, SES and Gender
Overview
- Ethnicity, language and culture
- Racism
- Gender and Gender role identity
- Multicultural education
- SES, Poverty
- Indigenous
- English as a second language
- Families and communities
Ethnicity, language and culture
- Ethnicity
- Culture
- Socialisation
Language and culture
- Language – one of the main ways in which culture is transmitted
- Language has visible and hidden characteristics:
o Visible
o Hidden
o Basic English
Racism
- Racism
- Prejudice
- Cultural stereotypes
Dimensions of multicultural education
- Context integration
o Deals with the extent to which teachers use examples and content from a
variety of cultures in their teaching
- An equity pedagogy
o Exists when teachers modify their teaching in ways that will facilitate the
academic achievement of students from diverse racial, cultural, gender and
social-class groups
- An empowering school culture
o Grouping and labelling practices, sports participation, disproportionality in
achievement, and the interaction of the staff and students across ethnic and
racial lines must be examined to create a school culture that empowers
students from diverse racial, ethnic and gender groups
- Prejudice reduction
o This dimension focuses on the characteistis of studets aial attitudes ad
how these can be modified by teaching methods and materials
- Knowledge construction
o Teachers need to help students understand, investigate and determine how
the implicit cultural assumptions, frames of reference, perspectives and
biases within a discipline influence the ways that knowledge is constructed
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Document Summary
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