,ETH305V - Questions and Answers
Culture
• A shared system of beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts
• Processes of social and human interaction
• Example: Ndebele tribe. Xhosa
Macro culture
• Embodied by the countries symbols and values
• Shared by all citizens
• Example: Flag and national anthem
Micro / sub culture
• Smaller groups within a larger culture; such as religious, language and sports groups
• They share a belief in certain rules and roles
• Example: Sports team, religion
Micro cultures that influence classroom teaching
• Gender
• Barriers to learning
• Socio-economic class
• Language
• Family structure
Multicultural education
,Dimensions of multicultural education:
• Content integration
o When teachers use examples and content from a variety of cultures and groups to
illustrate key concepts when teaching diverse groups
• Equity pedagogy
o Modifying teaching in order to facilitate the academic achievement of students from
diverse racial, cultural, gender and social-class
o This includes using a variety of teaching styles and approaches to accommodate a wide
range of learning styles within different cultural and ethnic groups
• The knowledge construction process
o Refers to the methods, activities and questions teachers use to help learners understand
how assumptions and perspectives influence the way in which knowledge is constructed
o Teachers help learners to understand how racial, ethnic and social class influences
knowledge
• Prejudice reduction
o By reducing prejudice, teacher helps learners to develop positive attitudes towards
different racial, ethnic and cultural groups
o The objective is to overcome the learner’s current bias and add more positive attitudes
• An empowering School culture
o This involves restructuring the culture and organization of the school so that learners from
diverse groups can experience equality
o This is a collaborative process that involves all members of the school staff
Ethnic group and ethnocentrism
• An ethnic group is the distinct social group within a larger society
• Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view one’s own cultural group ad its social standards as superior
, Empowerment (4)
• A process, which enables learners to access aspects of the dominant culture
Examples:
The history of discrimination in SA
The various social groups that where disadvantaged and did not enjoy educational equality
The need to empower all the languages spoken in SA
• To broaden their understanding of themselves and the world in which they live
Diversity (The need for multicultural education in SA) (4)
• South Africa is culturally divers and the different viewpoints within any one ethnic or race group
need to be accommodated
• It is shown by the number of languages spoken, the racial, ethnic and social class mix
• Diversity constitutes any kind of variety in human kind
Xenophobia
• A hatred or fear of foreigners which results in an increase tension and violence towards immigrants
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