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Chapter 12 Practice Quiz
Education
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Which term refers to the process whereby students are divided into categories so that they can be assigned in groups to various kinds of classes?
Tracking
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Reducing
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Reproducing
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Interacting
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Training
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Which of the following can readily reproduce the class system, while seeming to improve the lot of the more marginalized social groups?
Access without mobility
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Commodification
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Mobility
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Access
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Open learning
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Which term refers to passing off someone's ideas and words as your own?
Role modelling
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Citations
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Cultural adaptation
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Plagiarism
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Copying
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Who coined the term "docile body"?
Michel Foucault
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Jenny Oakes
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Samuel Bowles
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Harold Gintis
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John Dewey
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What is another term for "tracking" in the school system?
Focusing
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Streaming
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Channeling
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Identifying
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Itemizing
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Which Marxist concept refers to the separation between the people and the work that they are paid to do?
Commodification
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Alienation
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Credentialism
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Disqualified knowledge
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Instrumentalism
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What theory applies to the process whereby the education system and other institutions help upper-class children grow up to be upper-class adults, middle-class children grow up to be middle-class adults, and so on?
cultural reproduction theory
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cultural education theory
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education theory
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environmental theory
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the theory of social control
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Which of the following is often ignored in multicultural education due to lack of knowledge on the part of the instructor?
Food
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Festivals
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Folklore
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Dance
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Fundamental values and beliefs
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Oakes's study of tracking in schools in the 1970s and 1980s showed that a student's perceived ability would be influenced by what?
Race
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Ethnicity
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Class
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Both A and B
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All of the above
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What term best reflects the education level of unemployed Canadians in 2017 in reference to the available jobs?
Certified
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Underqualified
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Qualified
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Overqualified
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Semi-skilled
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The docile body represents a group that has been conditioned to behave just how we want it to.
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Key to cultural reproduction theory is the legitimization of inequality.
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Multicultural education has been accused of failing to acknowledge that racism is systemic in Canadian society.
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Toronto's Africentric school opened in 2019.
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A potential factor in plagiarism is social distance.
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Cameron and Bartel (2008) determined that homework reduces family time and affects family relationships.
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Exemplification is an instrument of disciplinary control that produces docile bodies.
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In multicultural education, educators often overlooked the complexity and vitality of different cultures.
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In the latter half of the nineteenth century, public education was used to reduce social inequality in Canadian society.
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The Canadian federal government implemented its official policy of multiculturalism in 1991.
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