TAL 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Homeschooling, Minority Group, Pragmatics

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Course: TAL 103
• Professor: Lipsky

Document Summary

The knowledge, values, attitudes, and traditions that guide the behavior of a group of people and allow them to solve the problems of living in their environment. Relative standing in the society based on income, power, background, and prestige. Group values and beliefs about refusing to adopt the behaviors and attitudes of the majority culture. Ethnicity & race: ethnicity, opportunity gaps, minority group numbers. A cultural heritage shared by a group of people. Teacher education and quality gaps, afford-able housing gaps, challenging curriculum gaps, health care and nutrition gaps, school funding gaps, & quality childcare gaps. Schema that organizes knowledge or perceptions about a category. Tend to process info more quickly that already fits in with our schema & ignore what doesn"t. The extra emotional and cognitive burden that your performance in an academic situation might. Organized cognitive structures that include gender- related information that influences how.