Summarized notes of chapter: Diversity and Culture in Education in the prescribed book.
Notes are simplified, colour-coded and answers questions in SED2601 Workbook.
Effective for assignments as well as exam.
− Unlikeness or being of a different kind
− Range of differences
− Study of diversity includes:
- Learning about group differences in the opportunities that are
presented by society
- Addressing how different social factors influence social
institutions
- Development of group and individual identity
- Process of social change
Roosevelt-Thomas
‘managing diversity does not mean controlling or containing diversity, it
means enabling every member… to perform to his or her potential’
− However, for many educators and communities: diversity is a problem
− When new groups arrive to school there is often Racial Conflict, as well
as bias and intolerance
− Teachers and learners in receiving school view newcomers as a threat,
and therefore react with hostility and resentment
Noguera
− Instead of reacting with fear and insecurity, it is possible to devise ways
to respond that allow people to reap the benefits of pluralism
− ‘schools will undoubtedly continue to serve as the initial meeting place
for different cultures, and it will be very important that educators find
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, ways to make those encounters positive experiences for children,
parents and teachers’
Sources of Diversity
Identity:
- Who am i?
Gender:
- Is gender culturally created?
- Is it a social fact?
- How do we make teaching more gender specific?
Race:
- What is the social construction of race?
- How do we deal with racial integration in schools?
Class:
- Is class something that we achieve?
- How is class related to the means of production?
- How do we integrate different classes in our schools?
Access to education:
- What is access to education dependent upon?
Culture:
- Is culture static?
- How much do you know about your culture?
Important to understand that diversity arises from race, class, gender
and culture
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, 2. Who Am I?
− Socialization is process that enables us to answer questions about our
identities
− Social identities are guided by factors: gender, race, class, religion and
disabilities
− Answer to Who am I? – depends on who the world around the person
says that he or she is
− Identity:
- refers to the way in which a person defines him- or herself
- basis of socialization (process through which people learn the
expectations of society)
- given by others because we come to see ourselves as others
sees us
− Important to know that people become socialized by factors, it is
perhaps more important to UNDERSTAND HOW THIS SOCIALIZATION OR
IDENTITY FORMATION TAKES PLACE
− Identity or Socialization from Sociological Perspective:
- Functionalist:
o Argues that individuals are socialized in particular way
because they internalize values of society to bring
about social consensus
Anderson and Taylor:
From vantage point of functionalist theory ,
socialization integrates people into society because
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