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Chapter 1: The What, Why, and How of Exploring Diversity 1

Chapter 2: The Development of Cultural Identity 4

Chapter 3: The Spectrum of Responses to Diversity 7

Chapter 4: Race and Ethnicity 10

Chapter 5: Language and Nationality 13

Chapter 6: Socioeconomic Factors 16

Chapter 7: Religion 19

Chapter 8: Families 23

Chapter 9: Abilities 26

Chapter 10: Supporting Individual Learners 29

Chapter 11: Teaching in a Diverse World 31

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Chapter 1 The What, Why, and How of Exploring Diversity

1. Valuing diversity is about:

• focusing on ways we differ.
• using our commonalities as a way to highlight all the rich diversity among us.
• focusing on ways we are the same.
• focusing on global experiences, minimizing individual experiences

2. In a broad sense, human diversity refers to:

• the many ways people are different.
• biases people have about people who are different
• different skin tones
• speaking a different language
• What is a definition of biases?
• Negative views of people who are different from us
• Prejudice
• Ways that we are inclined to think about things based on familiar experiences.
• Appreciation for differences
• What is the most important consideration when learning about shared group

characteristics or shared experiences within specific cultural groups?

• Common characteristics of a group don’t always align with each individual’s

experiences

• Understanding shared AND individual characteristics and experiences are

essential: generalizations of groups can provide helpful background knowledge

but can never fully describe each individual’s experience or sense of cultural identity.

• Both of the above
• None of the above
• Of the following, which is NOT one of the three core values of NAEYC’s

Developmentally Appropriate Practice statement:

• What is known about child development
• What is known about social and cultural contexts in which children live
• What is known about each child as an individual
• What is known about maintaining proper boundaries between children at

developmental level and those below developmental level

• Culture can refer to social valued works of art, humanities, and sciences, AND
• Characteristic aspects of a group’s everyday experiences, socially transmitted

among group members

• Only the visible features that make people look different
• Only the unseen features that make people different from others
• Differences in skin color
• Believing that one cultural group is better than or superior to another is called: 3 / 4

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• justification
• ethnocentrism
• appreciation
• none of the above

8. Ethnicity refers to:

• Appreciating differences among people
• The specific language spoken at home
• Membership based on one’s national origin or national origin of one’s ancestors

and can include a wide variety of cultural characteristics and aspects of identity

• All of the above

9. Being a culturally competent educator involves:

• Developing a reward and punishment system to teach children appreciation
• Acknowledging that inequality no longer exists in our country
• Being capable of interacting with families fluently in their home language
• Being capable of interacting in reciprocal ways with all kinds of people.
• What is one potential problem with promoting an ‘everyone’s the same’ stance on

personal interactions?

• Individual needs may not be met, and unique individual cultural characteristics

and differences may not be validated, valued, and appreciated

• Nothing, exclusively focusing on sameness is important
• It’s important to teach children about differences only, not about similarities

among people

• None of the above
• If “equal isn’t always fair,” what is fairness about?
• Teaching children to speak many languages
• Equity
• Creating separate classrooms for children based ability needs
• All of the above
• What core attitudes and actions are at the heart of social justice?
• Recognizing power and resource imbalances and working to equitably distribute

these to ensure each person’s needs can be met

• Working closely with child protective services to catch parents who neglect their

children

• Believing some children’s values are better than others
• Recognizing power and resource imbalances
• What term is used to describe values which promote a more equitable sharing of power

and resources among all cultural groups without dominance, privilege, and superiority?

• Linguistic diversity
• Cultural pluralism
• Ethnocentrism
• None of the above

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