Chapter 12 Practice Quiz

Education
. 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?

. Which of the following can readily reproduce the class system, while seeming to improve the lot of the more marginalized social groups?

. Which term refers to passing off someone's ideas and words as your own?

. Who coined the term "docile body"?

. What is another term for "tracking" in the school system?

. Which Marxist concept refers to the separation between the people and the work that they are paid to do?

. 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?

. Which of the following is often ignored in multicultural education due to lack of knowledge on the part of the instructor?

. Oakes's study of tracking in schools in the 1970s and 1980s showed that a student's perceived ability would be influenced by what?

. What term best reflects the education level of unemployed Canadians in 2017 in reference to the available jobs?

. The docile body represents a group that has been conditioned to behave just how we want it to.

. Key to cultural reproduction theory is the legitimization of inequality.

. Multicultural education has been accused of failing to acknowledge that racism is systemic in Canadian society.

. Toronto's Africentric school opened in 2019.

. A potential factor in plagiarism is social distance.

. Cameron and Bartel (2008) determined that homework reduces family time and affects family relationships.

. Exemplification is an instrument of disciplinary control that produces docile bodies.

. In multicultural education, educators often overlooked the complexity and vitality of different cultures.

. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, public education was used to reduce social inequality in Canadian society.

. The Canadian federal government implemented its official policy of multiculturalism in 1991.

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