VOCABULARY WORDS FOR GLOSSARY
Bilingual education :
involves teaching academic content in two languages, in a native and secondary language with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model.
Charter schools:
public schools that are operated like private schools by public school teachers and administrators
Church:
a life-encompassing religious organizations that most members of a society accept as legitimate
Cognitive ability:
capacity for thinking abstractly
Compensatory education:
specific curricular programs designed to overcome a deficiency
Cooperative learning:
instructional method that relies on cooperation among students.
Cult:
a religious organization whose charecteristics are not drawn from existing religious traditions within a society
Cultural bias:
the unfair measurement of the cognitive abilities of people in some social categories.
Denomination:
as a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name, tradition, and identity.
Education:
is the process of facilitating learning. Knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits of a group of people are transferred to other people, through storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, or research
Educational equality:
condition in which schooling produces the same results for lower-class and minority children as it does for other children.
For-profit schools:
schools run by private companies on government funds
fundamentalism:
the resistance of secularization and the rigid adherence to traditional religiuos beliefs, rituals, and doctrines.
Hidden curriculum:
the nonacademic agenda that teaches discipline,order,cooperativeness and conformity.
Integrative curriculum:
an aproach to education based on student-teacher colaboration
Latent function:
an action that produces an unintended and unrecognized result
Magnet schools:
public schools that focus on particular disciplines or areas, such as fine arts of science
Manifest function:
an action that produces an intended and recognized result
MERITOCRACY
A society in which social status is based on ability and achievement
MONOTHEISM
Is the belief in one god. For example: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
An educational curriculum that emphasizes differences among gender, ethnic, and racial categories
OPEN CLASSROOM
A nonbureaucratic approach to education based on democracy, flexibility, and noncompetitiveness
POLYTHEISM
Refers to the belief in a number of gods. For example: Hinduism
PROFANE
Nonsacred
PROTESTANT ETHIC
A set values, norms, beliefs, and attitudes stressing hard work, thrift, and self-discipline
RELIGION
A unified system of beliefs and practices concerned with sacred things
RELIGIOSITY
Ways in which people express their religious interests and convictions
SACRED
Holy; set apart and given a special meaning that goes beyond, or transcends, immediate existence
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
The achievement of a racial balance in the classroom
SCHOOLING
Is formal education, which involves instruction by specially trained teachers who follow officially recognized policies
SECT
A religious organization that arises out of desire to reform an existing religious organization
SECULARIZATION
Process through which the sacred loses influence over society
SELF – FULFILLING PROPHECY
A prediction that results in behavior that makes the prediction come true
TRACKING
Placement of students in programs according to academic ability levels
VOUCHER SYSTEM
System in which public school funds may be used to support public, private, or religious schools
