Deck 12: Liberation Teaching: A Guidance Response

Question 1

According to the violence pyramid,the greatest number of children are affected by which type of violence?

A)entertainment violence
B)violence in the home and/or the community
C)real world violence shown in the media
D)isolated traumatic direct exposure to violence in the home and community

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Through liberation teaching,a teacher provides a protective buffer.What is a protective buffer?

Answer 2

A protective buffer is the way in which the teacher prevents a vulnerable child from being stigmatized and teaches the democratic life skills that enable the child to overcome vulnerabilities by meeting the needs for both safety and growth.

Question 3

Which of the following is a teacher behavior that stigmatizes?

A)establishing psychological distance from a child
B)establishing close ties with all children in the classroom
C)treating children inclusively
D)treating children equally

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What is the liberation teaching response to bullying?

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT a social circumstance that puts children at-risk for stigma?

A)family income
B)Fetal Alcohol
C)religion
D)family dynamics

Question 6

Which of the following statements about anti-bias education is NOT true?

A)It directly addresses the impact of stereotyping,bias,and discrimination.
B)It addresses gender and other physical differences.
C)It is based on children's tasks as they construct identity and attitudes
D)It involves only the teachers and staff.

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT a common effect of violence directed at a child?

A)The child may more easily form attachments
B)The child may act provocatively and aggressively
C)The child may avoid intimacy
D)The child feels incapable of learning

Question 8

Why is liberation teaching important to the encouraging classroom?

Question 9

A liberating response does NOT

A)show clear acceptance of the child.
B)insensitively incorporate elements of the child's family background.
C)alter the environment for inclusion.
D)facilitate cooperative and individual activities

Question 10

Children who show chronic mistaken behavior are

A)vulnerable for bullying
B)at-risk of stigma.
C)more difficult for teachers to accept
D)all of the above

Question 11

If a program does not allow for the activity levels of young children,the children will

A)engage in quiet responses to daily activities
B)find ways to engage in boisterous activity
C)increase their fine motor skills through controlled activities
D)react in chronic mistaken behaviors

Question 12

How are children in the classroom affected by violence in society?

Question 13

Writers who believe that our education system must respond to violence generally agree on all BUT which of the following?

A)Social conflicts are a part of life for children and adults
B)Popular culture glorifies violence in ways that make civil problem solving difficult to teach and learn.
C)When children are personally affected by violence,they cannot be helped
D)There is a need to educate children to resolve conflicts peacefully.

Question 14

A liberating response

A)empowers the child's abilities.
B)uses forms of discipline that punish
C)ignores the child's background.
D)educates away from empathetic responses.

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT a way children come into a classroom vulnerable to stigma?

A)culture
B)personality factors
C)physical vulnerabilities
D)labels

Question 16

How does anti-bias education differ from the tourist curriculum?

Question 17

How is liberation teaching a response to societal violence?

Question 18

If a child isn't resilient,does that mean he/she will not be able to cope with negative situations?

Question 19

Which of the following is a task of peace education?

A)provide awareness of alternatives to violence
B)promote aggressive,competitive behavior toward one another
C)focus primarily on the results of a child's violent acts
D)accept violent ways of thinking and acting

Question 20

What does Levin's continuum of violence in children's lives tell us?

Question 21

When we talk of bullying,we think of it in terms of bullying as violence.What is bullying?

Question 22

How does liberation teaching apply to relations with family members?

Question 23

What are the four progressions suggested for increasing parent involvement in the practice of liberation teaching?

Question 24

What is the connection of liberation teaching to other education practices?

Question 25

In multicultural education,what is meant by the term "tourist curriculum"?