Chapter 6 Vocabulary

2. Our overlapping, intersecting social identities (gender, sexual orientation, class, ethnicity, religion, age, etc.) that shape each and every one of us in unique ways.
6. Excellent teaching for students of color that includes academic success, developing/maintaining cultural competence, and developing a critical consciousness to challenge the status quo.
8. culture Rejecting behavior that would help a student succeed academically for the sake of holding onto cultural identity.
13. education Education that promotes equity in the schooling of all students.
15. Socially constructed category based on appearances and ancestry, or shared physical characteristics such as skin color.
16. orientation The type of people one is romantically, sexually, or emotionally attracted to.
18. Cultural heritage shared by a group of people, shared history, homeland, language, traditions, and/or religion.

1. The study of the formal and informal rules for how, when, about what, to whom, and how long to speak in conversations within cultural groups.
3. Believing one’s learning and knowledge is fluid and can be changed or improved.
4. Relative standing in society based on income, power, background, and prestige.
5. Some groups feel that they are better than others.
7. schemas Organized cognitive structures that include gender-related information that influences how children think and behave.
9. A group of people who have been socially disadvantaged and/or discriminated against.
10. identity A person’s self identification as a gendered individual, different than sex.
11. Unfair prejudgment about a group of people.
12. The knowledge, language, values, attitudes, and traditions that shape and guide the behavior and beliefs of an individual person or a group of people; defined along regional, ethnic, religious, racial, gender, social class, or other lines.
14. A prejudicial preference or action
17. People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or are questioning.