Diversity & Multicultural Education

25 Building a foundation for diverse, inclusive, and multicultural education through a list of interactive terms. terms

Activism: noun; The policy that brings political and social change.
Bigotry: noun; Opinions formed that are targeted at a certain group of people for their culture, skin color, etc.
Culture: noun; The customs of a particular group of people, nation, or social group.
Disability: noun; Something that limits someone's movement or mental cognition. Handicap.
Diversity: noun; A variety, and inclusion of different cultures, ethnicities, genders, and sexual orientation.
Emigrant: noun; Someone who leaves their home country in order to settle permanently in another place.
Ethnicity: noun; A group of people who share the same cultural background.
Faith: noun; Having trust in something or someone
Gender Identity: noun; A persons sense of their own gender, how a person feels internally and outwardly.
Genderqueer: adjective; When a persons gender does not correspond with their conventional sex.
Heterogeneous: adjective; Varied in content and character
Homogeneous: adjective; Of the same likeness.
Indigenous: adjective; Inhabiting a place originally before colonists.
Kinship: noun; Relation from the same blood.
Minority: noun; Smaller group of people that are commonly discriminated against.
People of Color: noun; A person who's skin color is not white
Prejudice: noun; Preconceived notion that is not based on personal experience.
Privilege: noun; The special treatment or rights given to a group of people.
Sexual Orientation: noun; A persons identity to who they are sexually attracted to: homosexual, heterosexual, asexual etc.
Social Justice: noun; Distribution of opportunities within a community.
Tolerance: noun; The ability to endure something such as opinions/behavior.
Transgender: adjective; When a persons gender does not match the given sex at birth.
Uncivil: adjective; Rude, unkind, and disrespectful.
Values: noun; A person's principles that they follow an live by.
Violence: noun; Physical or verbal force intended to harm someone.