1. Bilingual and ESL Classrooms – Chapter 5
Culture
Dr. Ellen de Kanter
University of St. Thomas
Instructional Strategies for the Content Area in ESL
BIED 5336

2. Perspectives on the Concept of Culture
The Anthropological View of Culture
Culture is Learned
Culture is Shared
Cultural Components are Interrelated
Popular Views of Culture
The High Civilization View
The Set-of-Traits View

3. Processes in the Development of Cultural Identities
Cultural Transmission
Postfigurative Transmission
Cofigurative Transmission
Prefigurative Transmission
Biculturalism
Acculturation
Assimilation

4. Multicultural Education
Cultural Pluralism as a Basis for Multicultural Education
Dimensions of multicultural Education
Content Integration
The knowledge construction process
Prejudice reduction
An equity pedagogy
An empowering school culture and social structure

5. Prejudice and Discrimination
Marked and Unmarked Languages and Cultures
Stereotypes
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Relativism

6. The Role of Culture in Language Minority Achievement
Deficit Theories
Cultural Difference Theories
Cognitive Styles
Language Variation
Language Use Patterns
Social, Economic, and Political Factors in Achievement
Socioeconomic Status
Social Reproduction Theory

7. Ethnographic Approaches to Cultural Understanding
Cultural Compatibility Studies
Sociocultural Theory and Knowledge Construction Studies

8. Bilingual and ESL Classrooms – Chapter 5
Culture
Dr. Ellen de Kanter
University of St. Thomas
Instructional Strategies for the Content Area in ESL
BIED 5336