Cultural Definitions

A developmental process that makes people aware of systems of oppression.

• Affirm

  
  

• Culture

  
  

• Consciousness

  
  

• Curriculum

  
  

Culture is the customs, traditions, arts, and beliefs of a racial, religious, or other social group

• True

• False

To offer support or encouragement to confirm validity; to confirm or ratify

• Academia

  
  

• Affirm

  
  

• Cultural Mismatch

  
  

• Deficit Thinking

  
  

Unconscious attitudes, beliefs, understandings, and stereotypes that impact their behavior and interactions with another

• Implicit Biases

  
  

• Equity

  
  

• Native

  
  

• Marginalization

  
  

Creating equal opportunity for access, success, and representation for all students in our classrooms

• Identity

  
  

• Native

  
  

• Privilege

  
  

• Equity

  
  

Distinguishing characteristics or personality of an individual; who a person is, or the qualities of a person or group

• Marginalization

  
  

• Identity

• Native

  
  

• Novice

  
  

Associated with a person’s origin or birth; belonging to or associated with one by birth; innate

• Novice

  
  

• Identity

  
  

• Native

  
  

• Privilege

  
  

Someone who is new to the practice of education; someone who is just beginning to learn a skill or subject

• Equity

  
  

• Native

• Identity

  
  

• Novice

  
  

An advantage,immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted or available only to a particular person or group of people

• Privilege

  
  

• Marginalization

  
  

• Identity

  
  

• Equity

  
  

Approach that empowers students by using cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes

• Curriculum

  
  

• Counternarrative

• Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

  
  

• Academia