MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN A
PLURALISTIC SOCIETY CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION VERIFIED QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
●● Multicultural education supports:
Answer: the concepts of culture, diversity, equality, social justice, and
democracy in the school setting; will lead to an understanding of the
development and practice of multicultural education
●● Culture
Answer: imposes order and meaning on our experiences; determines
how we think, feel, and behave in society; provides acceptable patterns
of behavior; allows us to predict how others will behave in certain
situations
●● Characteristics of culture
Answer: it is learned, shared, adaptive, dynamic
●● Cultural borders
Answer: a boundary between groups based on cultural differences that
may limit an individual's understanding of persons from a different
cultural background
,●● cultural pluralism
Answer: the maintenance of cultures as parallel and equal to the
dominant culture in society
●● hidden curriculum
Answer: the unwritten an informal rules that guide the expected
behaviors and attitudes of students in school
●● social justice
Answer: a philosophy that expects citizens to provide for those persons
in society who are not as advantaged as others
●● meritocracy
Answer: a system based on the belief that an individual's achievements
are based on their own personal merits and hard work and that the
people who achieve at the highest levels deserve the greatest social and
financial rewards
●● prejudice
Answer: negative attitudes about a group of people
●● discrimination
, Answer: the arbitrary denial of the privileges and rewards of society to
members of a group
●● multiculturalism
Answer: condition in which different cultural groups can maintain their
unique cultural identities while participating equally in the dominant
culture
●● subsocieties
Answer: groups within a society such as punk, gangs, skinheads, or
hippies that have developed their own values, attitudes, and behaviors,
which are different from the norm and often not acceptable to the
dominant culture group
●● marginalization
Answer: relegation to a position that is not part of the mainstream or
accepted by most people
●● Naturalization Act
Answer: allowed only whites to become US citizens; declared that all
immigrants could become a citizen after several years of residency
●● Plyer v. Doe
PLURALISTIC SOCIETY CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION VERIFIED QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
●● Multicultural education supports:
Answer: the concepts of culture, diversity, equality, social justice, and
democracy in the school setting; will lead to an understanding of the
development and practice of multicultural education
●● Culture
Answer: imposes order and meaning on our experiences; determines
how we think, feel, and behave in society; provides acceptable patterns
of behavior; allows us to predict how others will behave in certain
situations
●● Characteristics of culture
Answer: it is learned, shared, adaptive, dynamic
●● Cultural borders
Answer: a boundary between groups based on cultural differences that
may limit an individual's understanding of persons from a different
cultural background
,●● cultural pluralism
Answer: the maintenance of cultures as parallel and equal to the
dominant culture in society
●● hidden curriculum
Answer: the unwritten an informal rules that guide the expected
behaviors and attitudes of students in school
●● social justice
Answer: a philosophy that expects citizens to provide for those persons
in society who are not as advantaged as others
●● meritocracy
Answer: a system based on the belief that an individual's achievements
are based on their own personal merits and hard work and that the
people who achieve at the highest levels deserve the greatest social and
financial rewards
●● prejudice
Answer: negative attitudes about a group of people
●● discrimination
, Answer: the arbitrary denial of the privileges and rewards of society to
members of a group
●● multiculturalism
Answer: condition in which different cultural groups can maintain their
unique cultural identities while participating equally in the dominant
culture
●● subsocieties
Answer: groups within a society such as punk, gangs, skinheads, or
hippies that have developed their own values, attitudes, and behaviors,
which are different from the norm and often not acceptable to the
dominant culture group
●● marginalization
Answer: relegation to a position that is not part of the mainstream or
accepted by most people
●● Naturalization Act
Answer: allowed only whites to become US citizens; declared that all
immigrants could become a citizen after several years of residency
●● Plyer v. Doe
