NL5-Learner Personalities
More Recent Times: Recognition
Affinity/Persona: Rise of interest in social movements
Language: English becomes world language. English only movement vs. bilingual education
Gender: More attention paid to gender equality
Culture: Multiculturalism is favored over assimilation
Physical & mental abilities: Increased access for those with disabilities
Sex & sexuality: homosexuality beginning to become publicized, but still isolated
Race:
Age: More delineation about is appropriate for different ages
Family: Family structures begin to change, but there is nostalgia for old nuclear family structure
Locale: As cities expand, those on the fringe have less access to social resouces
Social Class: The affluent can afford to send children to expensive schools
New Learning: Inclusion
Dimension 3: Symbolic Differences
Affinity/Persona: Rise of niche markets as individualism is celebrated
Gender: Unequal gender relations are in the process of being transformed within a cultural debate about gender roles
Language: Multilingualism & increased interest in preserving small languages
Culture: Homogenization vs, differentiation with globalization
Physical & Mental Abilities: Increased interest of providing access & accomodations within education for those with disabilities
Sex & Sexuality: Sexuality understood as complex. Schools grapple with how to deal with this complexity
Race: Biology of race may have been discredited, but racism persists, often in less obvious ways
Age: Learning becomes less tied to specific age milestones and keeping everyone on the same page at the same time
Dimension 1: Material Class
Family: Broader range of family structures gain wider acceptance
Locale: Increased transience as people move for new opportunities. Globalization creates opportunities for communication & connection
Social Class: Education can work against class inequality
The Modern Past: Exclusion to Assimilation
Assimilation: Creates homogeneous community by asking everyone to conform to same standards to be successful
Exclusion: dominant social group maintains sameness by refusing admittance to those who are different
Dimension 3: Symbolic differences
Affinity/Persona: Personal Differences should not be discussed at work or school
Gender: Clearly defined gender roles
Language
Culture
Dimension 2: Corporeal Attributes
Age: Clear stages associated with different ages
Physical & Mental Abilities: People whose physical or mental abilities deviated from the norm were separated
Sex & Sexuality: Limited attention paid to dichotomy between male & female. Heterosexuality the only accepted norm
Race: Racial segregation in schools
Dimension 1: Material Conditions
Family: Standard nuclear family only accepted norm
Locale: Little movement & different opportunities in different geographies
Social Class: Schools divided by class
